The Earth is only 2007 years old?

Question

I was surprised to learn this as it goes against everything I was ever taught about science AND history. Can anyone provide a good argument for this much younger age theory of earth?

Answer 1

Can't help with this Q. Did you research for fact?

Answer 2

Where did this one come from? This would mean, since this
is the year 2007, that there was no earth before the birth of
Christ and therefore all the socalled history in the Old
Testament is false. You won't find many religious OR non-
religious people who will accept this notion. The evidence for
a great age of the earth does not seem to be refutable by any
idea so far proposed. Of course, it is also not possible to
refute the idea that the earth was created 10 minutes ago,
with all the memories of a past history implanted in each
person's mind. Choose any other date from ten minutes ago
to 10 billion years ago and the same limitation exists. This
idea of creation of a false past history of the earth was
actually proposed in the book "Omphalos" by Philip Gosse,
a naturalist who was a contemporary of Darwin. It never
gained any popularity with either religious or scientific people.

Answer 3

Well I think that the world is a whole lot older than just 2007 years old. I mean when u you read anything that has to do with history it goes back to A.D and B.C time so its way older than just 2007. I believe that scientists have predicted that the Earth is a couple million years old. I'm not sure of the correct number but im sure its not 2007...... You could use the website on my source list to do more research. There is no real prove of how old the Earth really is so believe whatever you want to believe until there is prove and IF you believe that prove..........

Answer 4

I'm not sure where you heard that, but certainly biblical texts such as the Dead Sea Scrolls that are dated between the 1st and 2nd century B.C., and the Masoretic and Septuagint texts which are dated between the 3rd and 4th century B.C. give good credit to the people and places of history that we believe existed prior to New Testament times.

Biblical texts contain lineages that, when added up, place the creation of the Earth at ~6000 years ago and the worldwide flood at about 43-4500 years ago. Considering the fact that our written human history does not exceed 4-6 thousand years, this is the best [documented] evidence we have for the age of the earth.

Much depends upon your interpretation of the evidence available, however. People who automatically discredit such written accounts of history, even if they are supported on many levels historically and archeologically, will "interpret" the evidence (i.e. fossils, biological processes, etc.) based on their belief that the universe is ~15 billion years old, the earth is ~4.5 billion years old, and that evolution has been happening for millions of years. Such dogmatic thinking has given rise to a religious and ideological stance on how to interpret the evidence, even if it contradicts the core hypothesis.

One example of this is the fact that there are literally thousands of stories and legends of dragons and dinosaur like creatures (the word "dinosaur" was not coined until the mid 1800's by Sir Richard Owen) throughout our history (in several different cultures) dozens of dinosaur bones have been found with soft-tissue still intact, and mummified dinosaur remains have even been found, and yet evolutionists still emphatically claim that dinosaurs died out 60-70 million years ago.

Another example is the "living fossil" fish the Coelacanth, which evolutionists dated the origin of at about 350-400 million years ago, and which they confidently claimed went extinct some 65 million years ago. Unfortunately the Coelacanth did not get the memo, and has made an appearance almost every decade for the last 70 years, fundamentally unchanged from its "supposed" 65 million year old relatives.

There are prime examples of this lemming-mentality that circumvent logic in almost every aspect of the evolutionary ideology. The perpetuation of this "long-age" way of thinking is due in large part to sociological indoctrination on a grand scale. From the time you enter kindergarten, evolutionist propaganda is being surreptitiously imprinted on your impressionable little mind by utilizing the fascinating giant reptiles we know as dinosaurs, and those four magic words: "millions of years ago..." This is then reinforced by the media, movies, television, magazines, books, zoos, aquariums, museums, science textbooks, science teachers, professors, and even naïve people in general, so that the idea of a 6000 year history becomes a fringe-belief, and ridiculously long time periods (i.e. millions, billions, trillions, quadrillions, etc.) become cold, hard, indisputable fact.

The bottom line is that you should research this for yourself, and make the determination based on what you believe the best interpretation of the evidence is. Because no amount of "science" can prove irrefutably what the age of the earth and the universe are without resorting to many many grand assumptions; the first and foremost one being that there is no need for God, and that our written account of history (the Bible) is altogether inconsequential.

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Answer 5

Where where you told this? Don't believe everything you hear. This is simply not possible. According to science, the earth is several billions of years old (about 4 or 5 billion). According to Christianity, the earth is at least several thousand years old. Our year numbering system is based on Christianity, and year zero was the year Jesus was born. He did have parents a long line of ancestors spelled out in the Bible. And history details a couple thousand years BC - before Christ.
Kudos to you for questioning something instead believing everything you hear.

Answer 6

If the Earth was only 2007 years old, then why in the world would AD and BC exist? If there is a such thing as 1000 BC, then obviously the earth has been around for more then 2007 years.

Answer 7

How could the earth be only 2007 years old? This human made time line was created after Jesus died. The Chinese and Jewish Calendar is much older. This alone should convince you the earth is older than 2007 years old. If people were living and recording time before Jesus, then the earth must be older.

Answer 8

I think you'd better research a little more. Our history goes back more than 2007 years and our history is just a small part of the Earth's story.

Answer 9

The Earths Oldest Rock's
Description Technique Age (in billions of years)

Amitsoq gneisses (western Greenland) Rb-Sr isochron 3.70 +- 0.12
Amitsoq gneisses (western Greenland) 207Pb-206Pb isochron 3.80 +- 0.12
Amitsoq gneisses (western Greenland) (zircons) U-Pb discordia 3.65 +- 0.05
Amitsoq gneisses (western Greenland) (zircons) Th-Pb discordia 3.65 +- 0.08
Amitsoq gneisses (western Greenland) (zircons) Lu-Hf isochron 3.55 +- 0.22
Sand River gneisses (South Africa) Rb-Sr isochron 3.79 +- 0.06 (gneiss is pronounced as "nice")



I don't know where this theory came from, but it is all wrong. As you can see from the above list, if rocks found on Earth (and they are found on all continents) date back 3.5 BILLION years or more via radiometric dating, then you KNOW it is older than any 2007 years old. It's just common sense, since we know that dinosaurs have been extinct for over 65 million years.
The age of the Earth,estimated at 4.5 billion years old, is consistent with the theory that the Solar System is 11-13 billion years (for our Milky Way Galaxy), and 10-15 billion for the entire Universe. Moon rocks brought back by the astronauts have been dated at 4.6 billion years.
Last but not least, some form of mankind has existed for millions of years (it's been said that if God's days were 24 hours long--as we measure them now--mankind did not appear until just a few seconds before midnight).
I think this idea means that the Christian era is only 2007 years old, and whoever came up with it wasn't thinking about all the years prior to the birth of Jesus. So, I guess what you believe is whether you go along with Creationists or Evolutionists (having studied geology, I go with the evolution theory).

Answer 10

What? 2007 years old? The numeral time as we know it now started with Christ's death. That's why it's called 2007 AD meaning 2007 years After the Death of Christ and before that was BC meaning Before Christ

Answer 11

No, its a bunch of BS. Talk to a orthodox jew, if you can get an appt. with one, and ask. 5000 something years old. Go to www.drdino.com, look for the age of the earth dvd to buy or rent the vhs or dvd at your local christian bookstore and watch. Eye opener. It goes against every grain of stuff that we were taught in school, hard to imagine this theory could be true. You decide.