Is there actually valid evidence that the earth is only a couple thousand of years old?

Answer 1

No, there is not. Often, young Earth creationists will take a scientific conundrum, such as different methods dating a sediment to two different time periods, say 75 million years ago or 100 million years ago, and claim that it shows the sediment is really 5000 years old, which of course has no basis in logic or the scientific method. Any time science produces an unexpected or incomplete result, the YE creationists jump in to say that the entire method is discredited, when no such thing is true.

Every piece of reliable science, including carbon dating, other forms of isotope measuring, models of planet formation, orbital changes, and genetic studies, shows that the substance of the Earth is 4.5 billion years old, and that live has thrived here for all but the first billion of those years.

Answer 2

Ther earth is very old. As old as the Universe but in the 1800s a fundamentalist christian who was opposing Darwin's therory of evolution stated after much study that based on the bible the world was 8000 years old.

As to Adam and Eve, Well Many scholars think that the story of Genisis was translated poorly from the origianal language into greek. Adam in the Ancient languages actually meant "Man or Mankind" and Eve meant "Woman" So they were not actually a man and a woman they were men and women.

Read "Thou shall be as gods" or The art of loving by Eric Fromme. He makes some very interest points about the old and new testaments and how we all became who we are.

Answer 3

Rachel QVT,

No, there is not. There are a lot of flawed arguments pushed by creationists (that arise from misunderstandings of actual science) that masquerade as the evidence you speak of, but they are not actually evidence. In fact, there is essentially proof (or at least as close to proof as science is ever likely to acheive) that the earth has been around for at the very least tens of thousands of years. On top of this, while I would not call it "proof", there is overwhelming evidence from a variety of independent methods that all indicate an age of ~4.5-4.6 billion years. The idea that the earth is as young as two thousand years can be discarded with virtually 100% certainty.

Answer 4

"Ther earth is very old. As old as the Universe but in the 1800s a fundamentalist christian who was opposing Darwin's therory of evolution stated after much study that based on the bible the world was 8000 years old."

The earth is not as old as the universe. The solar system formed about 4.7 billion years ago from a disc of dust that remained after a star exploded in a supernova. The universe is more than 13 billion years old. It is possible that there have been two stars before ours.

Bishop Ussher, who, from studying the Bible, calculated that the days of creation occurred in 4004BC died in 1656, 203 years before Darwin published "On the Origin of Species".

Answer 5

No.

But nothing in science denies the existence of a Creator who watches over us today. Science just says that, if they exist, they started the process 13 billion years ago with a Bang, the Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago, and the Creator used some kind of evolution as a tool. Man and dinosaurs did not walk the Earth together.

Answer 6

The bible. More people will believe that, than anything else. Though there are obvious discrepancies in the creation stories within.

Anyone ever think it was odd that Adam and Eve were the first 2 humans... they produced a few kids, then the kids went on in to the city? Maybe I missed something, but where did the city come from?

BTW, yes im christian and I believe in the bible, but I just don't get this.

Answer 7

NO!!!!
There is incontrovertible evidence it is millions of years old, actually billions. I personally have seen sediments that were piled up layer upon layer in a manner that took millions of years. As a geologists, I understand that people that claim otherwise are simply ignorant of the facts.

Answer 8

I understand some of the theories. A few make sense to a point.

Remember there is a difference between a YEC, a creationist, and a believer in intelligent design.

Answer 9

The answer is no.

The bible says the world was created in seven 'days' (!!)
Before 6000 years.

Science says that the world is a piece of the sun that was shattered from the sun after an explosion (that’s why the earth is hot inside), there are many evidences for the scientific view.

so , no way the world is 2000 years old , because we found many evidences for life millions of years old ( dinosaurs ) .

Hence, the bible contradicts science

Answer 10

We have the same evidence you do, we just interpret it differently.

and about the sons of Adam and Eve... People in that time lived almost 1000 years. Many generations would have spawned before the death of the first man. We don't know how old he was when he left to a city. A city does not imply a big civilization. There were probably two or three "cities" in the entire world at that time.