what i dont get is that christins say the world is only 6,000 year old that is not possible be cause they have found dinosaur bones older than christins think the world is it is just not possible. please try to prove it wrong.
2007-08-11 20:05:56 · 30 answers · asked by poppers6394 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We've already proved they're wrong - they just don't understand, let alone accept, the evidence cos it contradicts the superstitions and myths that ignorant BronzeAge CamelJockeys put in their Goat herders' Guide to the Galaxy.
You gotta love 'em though cos while they're infected with the InvisibleSkyPixie madness they're not competing for our jobs.
2007-08-11 20:14:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Poppers 6394, Wisdom Guru makes a good point, but I will answer anyway. The Earth is about 5 billion years old. Ask any qualified geography or astronomy student and that person will give you a similar answer.
Christians who give you the figure of 6,000 are nearly 5 billions years off and are misleading you because they are mislead. Your own comments prove that: How can dinosaur bones be older than the Earth itself?
They cannot be unless they came from somewhere else. But if they came from somewhere else, Earth is not the only planet where there is life...The question can get really, really big so we'll stop here.
2007-08-12 03:37:29 · answer #2 · answered by Starte Christ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Catholics, the original Christians, do not believe that the earth is only 6000 years old. We do believe in evolution and we believe in science. Don't class all Christians together on this one. We do not believe that the Old Testament was written as a factual history book but as a collection of stories meant to illustrate certain truths to the people of the time (when each story was written) The truth illustrated by the story of Genesis is that God is the creator of the world and everything in it. The people of the time would never have understood how God brought life forth by evolving it and neither did the story writer. He simply told the story, there was a first man and a first woman, they were created by God. Before this there were many other animals and plants of all sorts all made by the hand of God. God pronounced his creation good. That's it in a nutshell.
2007-08-12 03:28:06 · answer #3 · answered by Barbara E 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh goodness, just don't bother with them. Creationists live in their own little world; they brandish their dusty old mythology book and try to come up with supposedly scientific explanations for its contents (always failing utterly)...they're quite a laughable lot, really. I'm sure you've got better things to do with your time than worry about it.
Edit: You see? Ejsy05 up there is a shining example. Just like the rest of them who apparently slept through every science class they ever took in school...apparently doesn't know the difference between millions and billions, because nobody ever claimed that a bone was billions of years old (critters with bones didn't show up till a fraction of a billion years ago). They call things like carbon dating "crap" without knowing a bloody thing about it; they couldn't find carbon on the periodic table if they had a map. And they rely on an old mythology book as "proof" of everything. I rest my case.
2007-08-12 03:28:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
First, you generalize. Some Christians believe the world is 6000 years old. I personally do not know nor do I care. Nothing in the bible states the age of creation.
Secondly, you do not KNOW how old fossil remains are. You can estimate based on current observations and by using extrapolations. This MAY be somewhat to very accurate. But you cannot PROVE how accurate.
Thirdly, it is possible that the world was created on Dec, 3, 1957 at 3:14 am CST. That was when I came into the world and as far as I can prove, that was when I caused the universe to come into my imagination. My point should be this, I am willing to concede the probability of an old universe and earth as long as you can concede the possibility of a young creation with a built in history.
Please try to prove this wrong.
It will be just as easy as proving your assumptions wrong.
2007-08-12 03:17:33 · answer #5 · answered by Arnon 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
You don't have to believe that the earth is 6000 years old to be a Christian. Some do, many don't. I don't. Lots of Christians believe this because of a footnote in old Bibles. A guy named Usher tried to go through the Bible and add up all the dates and came up with 4004 BC as the year of creation. There are too many holes in that approach to go into here. Suffice it to say that many other opinions abound. Many Christians, including myself, believe that much of the dating info about the earth, universe, etc. is relatively accurate. I do believe dinosaurs existed, I don't think cavemen rode them around like horses, etc. Most Christians with this opinion believe that the 'days' in the Genesis account are better translated as 'periods of time'.
2007-08-12 03:15:46 · answer #6 · answered by Rtay 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Not all Christians believe the world is only 6,000 years old.
Check out these articles on "Old-earth creationism vs. young-earth creationism":
http://godsci.org/gs/crea/oec.html
http://godsci.org/gs/crea/yec.html
Jewish scholars have said that where science and the biblical texts seem to be in conflict either our interpretation of the text or our scientific knowledge is in error. Neither is perfect, I'm afraid.
2007-08-12 03:13:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
There is a very small sect of Christians that adhere to a very literalistic interpetation of the tales of Genesis. They believe that anything that contradicts their literal interpetation of their book of mythology MUST be wrong because they presume a priori that that their book is "inerrant and without flaw". The notion that the world'd history is not what they imagine it to be is tantamount to declaring the Bible to be a lie.
They're wrong, of course. Science does not call the Bible a lie. Science just demonstrates that their literalistic interpetation of the Bible as literal history is incorrect.
But these folks dare not even consider the possibility that they might be wrong. So they resort to any and all manner of tactics to try to discredit, smear, distort, or otherwise misrepresent what science is and does.
Evidently they feel that "Thou shalt not bear flase witness" is optional, but Genesis iron-clad.
2007-08-12 03:14:14 · answer #8 · answered by Scott M 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I do not think the world is only 6 000 years old it could be 6 million remember God does not count time as we do a day to God is 1000 years to us.
2007-08-12 03:14:08 · answer #9 · answered by Mim 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not all Christians believe that the world is only 6000 years old. In fact most Christians in history don't read all the stories of the Old Testament as a history book.
We are supposed to be concerned about spiritual matters, not so much about the physical world.
Jesus illustrated that idea by overcoming physical death.
2007-08-12 03:12:25 · answer #10 · answered by kitchenchick 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋