And I wanna know why people would even think that the Earth was created 6,000 years ago... bible huggers
2007-07-30 14:53:35 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Thats the thing I want to know too!
2007-07-30 14:55:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago, the assumption is the Earth formed around the same time (the date is from radioactive dating of meteorites).
The 6,000 years business is from the chronology formulated from different milestones in the Bible (the fall of Jerusalem, the Exodus, etc). Biblical scholars have counted back by the years for these (and other) dateable events to come up with the year of Creation being 3987 B.C.
True believers aren't likely to change their beliefs because of scientific evidence - they will always find ways to discredit science.
Since this is a free country (at least where I live), then they are entitled to their beliefs, just as you are entitled to yours.
Live and let live.
2007-07-30 22:35:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Earth was created no more than about 4.5 billion years ago, which is the age of the Sun. Shortly after the sun formed, the disk of debris around it started condensing and forming chunks that eventually became the planets.
On the religion portion of your question, some people will believe anything they are told as long as it comes from their "book" or a leader in their church or mosque or whatever. Whether that is faith or just the inability to think for themselves and form contradictory ideas using common sense, I don't know.
2007-07-30 22:52:42 · answer #3 · answered by El Conquistador 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People think the Earth was created about 6,000 years ago because they accept the accumulated mistranslations, both deliberate and unintentional, of the original Scriptures as being the literal truth.
The original word mistranslated as "day" in almost all English-language Bibles more nearly translates as "cycle" or "epoch".
But King Jimmy wanted something less mind-boggling, so we use day now.
2007-07-30 22:43:49 · answer #4 · answered by Tom K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could be 100 billion years or more for all anyone knows. The geologists can only speculate on what they can see and measure.
They can not measure how many "creations" there have been, only what is found in canyons, on the ocean floor, buried under tons of dirt, silt, clay, bedrock. The surface of the planet yields us a bare minimum of the endless possibilities of what may have lived and died here in the past. The crusts shift, split, subduct, etc. The erosion of wind, water, and ice scrapes and dissolves a lot of the history in no time at all. That doesn't leave much for us to study, does it?
There in Australia, dinosaurs footprints preserved in stone that has since heaved up to become a wall of stone that one day will be erased by the largest factor of all; time. The pyramids in Egypt and the Sphinx, crumbling slowly. In a million years what will have taken place to vanish them without a trace. How many times will the poles shift, continents drift, volcanoes erupt, oceans pour out over the land? And then there's man. How many go arounds has life form come and gone again, time after time. How many times has man risen and then destroyed himself? A million cycles? We are living in just one of countless of them. The vestiges of our civilization will be gone one day. Wiped out by nature.
We may travel to another planet or galaxy to procreate there and begin anew, but maybe that is how we got here in the first place.
So it is not so much about when Earth was created, it is constantly being recreated right before our eyes. There is that constant cycle of creation, maintenance, dissolution. Birth, life, death. The earth is a unit not unlike a human. It has a cycle with many sub cycles in it. So when someone wants to date the creation, the only way to know for sure is to go back in time to the birth of the earth. Digging around on it's surface will tell us some things but not everything. What was here a billion years ago is melted away into recreating what we see now.
There is no straight, sure-fire answer. It's turtles all the way down.
2007-07-30 22:33:49 · answer #5 · answered by mim 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
First off, earth is billions of years old. Adam and Eve aren't so old. If you believe that stuff. I used to believe when I was a kid but now rational tells me otherwise. 6,000 years ago , no way!
2007-07-30 22:00:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am a Catholic, but do NOT believe every thing they say. The earth was made 4.6 biion years ago
2007-07-30 22:03:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dude, why bother baiting the creationists. Let them believe what ever they want too. Anyone with half a brain doesn't really take them seriously anyways. We all have better things to do then start one sided arguments. Live and let live.
2007-07-30 21:59:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The earth wasn't "created". It formed from natural processes of condensing gas and asteroids and comets.
"Created" implies someone or some ID or god did it.
2007-07-30 22:00:13 · answer #9 · answered by Joan H 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
3.6 Billion years ago
2007-07-30 21:55:52 · answer #10 · answered by Irrelavant 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋