How can people believe the Earth is 6,000 years old when we can date its components to billions of years ago?

Question

I don't understand how people can dispute scientific FACT which is beyond controversy.

Answer 1

Willful ignorance and denial. Mix in a large dose of arrogance, as wonderfully demonstrated in a post or two above, and gel with an inordinate helping of brainwashing and you have a heady mixture of self-perpetuating ignorance, as exemplified by

"The Earth is about 6,000 old, and in about 70 years, you'll know I'm right."

and

"The bible is scientifically accurate but does not tell us how old mother earth is. "

QED

ROTFLMAO!

However, the mentally handicapped should be pitied, rather than scorned, as they know not what they do.

Answer 2

People will believe anything you tell them. Basing the earth's age in conjuction with the planets and solar systems around it, it does appear to be billions of years old. Perhaps the earth is even younger than other solar systems that we can see with the Hubble Telescope and those that are far from our reach.

The Bible has been a contention for many years. Scrolls and writings of men who wrote them long after the facts that they write about. If one were to confer to the Bible, one must look objectively toward the facts that man wrote the Bible based upon scrolls that have no basis of fact at all. While the scriptures do have meaning and good ones at that for the most part, the people who wrote those scriptures were uneducated, unknowing and did not realize the universise as we now see it.

For the Bible people, do you slaughter lambs and burn them as offerings as the Bible tells you to do? Do you build tents in the desert and offer bread on alters as you are told to do? Do you eat fish on friday and not work on Sundays as you are told to do? If you do not do these things, then you are not doing what the Bible tells you to do.

It is apparent that by way of the propenderence of evidence that the earth is millions or billions of years old. The skeletons of mammals that lived over 1.5 millions years ago is proof of that.

For those who are die hard Bible people (and I do believe some of the writings), that the earth was created in 6 days. 6 days to God might be a billion years in our time. One must consider that a day of our God is not the same as a day in the life of what we describe in our time as 24 hours.

It is clear that there are other solar systems and suns and moons. The Bible does not address these indisbutable facts because it was written by men who were not aware of such when they wrote their opinions. This gives way to the fact that the Bible, while stating many great things, was written by people who did not know of their surroungings. In such, the Bible is incorrect in many ways, however I do believe in Jesus and our Creator. What I do not believe is that God wrote the Bible. Had he done so, he would have expoundend on other worlds that he had created.

Answer 3

Oh my bad, Show me the scientific proof in which you have seen to assure me my dates are in fact wrong?

I allow emails, I do not hide from by beliefs and others opinions. Feel free to collect the proof you say there is, and show me. What I know to be true about your "proof" is an educated guess based on what we understand at this moment. What I don't think you understand is, there was proof that the world was flat, proof that Earth, not the sun was the center of the solar system, and proof of many many more theories backed by non-factual evidence which gave birth to an educated guess. If we as imperfect beings that we know we are and don't need the bible to know, believe that counting spots and scrapes on a rock is a 100% accurate way of measurement, than we are truly arrogant and ignorant on that basis alone. The fact that you believe you are so smart that you yourself know the answers of the universe, yet I believe I do not know the answers of the universe and only my god does, how can I be the arrogant, and ignorant one.

You know the answers... Than why is an educated guess and theory all that we can come up with as proof. Show me real concrete evidence and I will accept you as being right. The way you will argue this is to say "well im not gonna show you the proof because no matter what, you wont believe it anyway". This is not true at all. If you show me real legitimate proof that Earth has been around for billions of years, or even more than 10,000, I will accept it. The problem you will find is, there is none, because there is no way to know the age of earth and the universe for sure unless you in fact was there in the beginning, and lived up until now, documenting what happened, when it happened, and how it happened. Then and only then, can you create a time-line backwards. Good luck with that!

Answer 4

They find little biased factoids that explain in detail perhaps one speculated or even actual occurrence of a mistake someone made somewhere along the way ... making it look like science is completely invalid in that field. They don't bother to research the issues in detail themselves so as to know what the theories state and what it is they are denying. On top of that many don't even bother to understand the arguments- they just rattle off any accusatory question they can- no matter how unintelligent.

Beyond CONTROVERSY, however- (sorry- no italics) not true. The creationists will argue this until nobody takes it seriously anymore- we're arguing RELIGION here ( haha )... we've already turned it into a game.

Oh, and I'm not just referring to Christians.

Answer 5

What makes science factual? Carbon dating? An expert in trees and everything to do with trees says that the rings on the inside of a tree represent it's age. An expert said this so it must be true. What if those rings were nothing more than layers and not the age of the tree? Earth is billions of years old. Prove this and prove how this is known. Experts should have no problem doing that because after all, they're experts and we know they're never wrong.

Answer 6

Carbon dating is an inexact science. Things such as chemicals and fire can alter results drastically.

Besides, time is not measured uniformly, and our measurement of time has not been the one that has always been in existence. Years used to be based on the number of times the moon revolved the earth, not the number of times the earth revolved around the sun.

And I am not one who believes that the earth is 6000 years old. I do believe it is older than that. But we cannot know the exact age simply because there are too many variables which should be considered, and frankly there is no way to take all of them into account.

Answer 7

All of us don't believe the earth is only 6000 years old.
Read this verse.
Gen 1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Gen 1:2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
We have no idea how long this took place before he said in verse 3, Let there be light.

Too many things are assumed.
I say this being a believer of the Bible, and am well aware of many important details that have been lost in translation.
Many of our Jewish brothers know the truth of such matters but also know this information is holy and cannot be afforded the disrespect of being taught in such an unholy forum.
There is no telling how long the earth was without form, and void before God began His wonderful masterpiece we have disregarded as such.
Blessings.

Answer 8

The creation of our earth is many more times than that. Many religions do not endorse the 6,000 year theory. Now billions of years is speculation and unproven. The bible is scientifically accurate but does not tell us how old mother earth is.

Answer 9

The same way they believe Johna was swallowed by a whale and survived or that Noah was able to take 2 of EVERY animal in his man made ark.
It's called brainwashing.

Answer 10

The rantings of the irrational do not concern me.

Is this not how you feel about me?

It's Mutual.

Your "Facts" aren't Facts. None of them.

http://icr.org/
http://www.answersingenesis.org/

And I know you haven't stated your "facts". I don't need to hear them anymore than I need to take the lid off a sewer to know it stinks. The Earth is about 6,000 old, and in about 70 years, you'll know I'm right.