how can people believe that the earth was formed 6,000 years ago when...?

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how can people beleive tht the earth was formed 6,000 years ago when we have HUMAN fossils 600,000 years old, and other fossils that are more than 3 billion (million?) years old. doesnt aht disprove the biblical account of creation right there?

so some people seriously think that carbon dating and other nearly set in stone scientific methods make less sense than god saying let there be light and light comming into existence. give me a break.

and 600,000 years old is accurate (kinda) the peking man is 600,000 years old and found in china, the java man is 350,000 years old and found in southeast asia.

lmao! yes mike. the what you said about lightning makes TONS!! more sense than god.

dreamdress. u think scientists are inaccurate. but in your argument your idea of how old the scientists think the earth is is off by over 3 billion years. and u cant even spell model. u have no credit here.

Answer 1

Actually, the Bible does not specify the age of the earth.
You are sure of your information even though you are less than a billion years old takes an act of faith.

Answer 2

Well, I believe in God and His Truth before I believe a bunch of scientists who were educated by man and not by God and His Word.

Honestly, if you research and study what the scientists say about fossils and the historic/prehistoric record, it is highly speculative and not at all the absolute science people make it out to be.

What is more believable, that a bolt of lightning and some bubbling water combined with a protein and an amino acid and started this whole world, or that a Loving God created this world and built in situations and/or circumstances that would test men's faith in Him and his Word?

The real question is, if God didn't speak life and creation into existence, then how did it start? Nobody from the scientific world can answer that with any amount of reliable accuracy.

Answer 3

Young Earth creation "scientists" put the cart before the horse.
They write in stone that the earth is young and then set out to try and prove it. This is not science at all an just makes Christians look ignorant.
Dr. Kent Hovind "Dr. Dino" goes around to Churches and presents himself as a scientist. This is deceptive. He got his "Dr." degree from a diploma mill but he says what his audience wants to hear so they keep the cash flowing. Some of them go so far as to say that God put fossils up in the mountains to confuse geologists. Nonsense.

An old earth does not disprove the creation account of Genesis. To God, a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as a day.

Science and the Bible are not at odds. There are a lot of things we do not understand yet both in theology and science.

Answer 4

6,000 years in the past. Many Christians like myself have no subject with a huge bang, or God working in an evolutionary technique. Day is used figuratively for a volume of time in lots of scriptures, and the day/age theory of the creation believes there could be thousands and thousands to billions of years between the days. The order for the creation parallels the comparable order technological expertise supplies. First comes the heavens (stars, etc.), then an empty earth without style, then land observed by using oceans, then flora observed by using the 1st smart existence in the sea, then comes birds (which in accordance to technological expertise are descendants of dinosaurs), then mammals, then a extra particular wild animal, and ultimately guy. this is somewhat remarkable that it supplies an order 3,000 plus years in the previous technological expertise confirms that comparable order. Adam isn't created till after the seventh day, and the day/age theory believes the guy created on the 6th day isn't the comparable as Adam who's first stated after the seventh day. that enables cave adult males, and explains the place Adam and Eve's toddlers stumbled on different halves, provided that there have been people in the previous them. so a techniques as intellegent layout, while some Christians latch onto a international it is 6,000 years previous, the belief-approximately "no longer smart" is composed of my suggestions. they could desire to be confident that technological expertise isn't the enemy, that technological expertise somewhat corroborates the biblical order. Likewise, non-religionists could desire to describe how Genesis got here up with the comparable order as technological expertise, thinking how that would relate to smart layout.

Answer 5

some people (jehova's witnesses for instance) manage to believe that the earth is old, but humans were created less than 10,000 years ago. don't ask me how they do it - they apparently believe scientific dating methods when it comes to rocks, but not when it comes to bones.

are you sure about that figure of 600,000 years? i'm not sure which fossil you're talking about there, it may well be a human ancestor but from what i've read it would be going a bit far to say that it's human, the (somewhat arbitrary) cutoff is usually given as 100,000 - 300,000 years ago. i hesitate to even mention this - this is the sort of debate that the believers use to pretend that the whole scientific account is uncertain, justifying their kooky beliefs.

Answer 6

According to many evolutionists earth is millions of years old. This can be contradicted easily. Almost everything in science is manipulated to fit into the evolution modal. As a result we have a faulty dating system. When it was tested on a living snail, it read 27,000 years old. All dating systems are based on three assumptions, which can’t be proved. They are {I} The system under study is an isolated system. {II} The decay rate is constant. But modern researches showed it is not. {III} The initial quantity of the parent element is known. But it’s not.

There are many proofs for a young earth. One of them is the magnetic decay. The magnet of earth is losing its power. The gravitation is decreasing every year. It becomes half every 700 years. At this rate the gravity would so strong millions of years ago that the pre-historic man would not even be able to lift his leg. The other evidences for a young earth are (1) depths of meteoritic dust on moon, (2) efflux of helium in atmosphere, (3) the shrinking size of the sun, (4) population etc.

Answer 7

Depends how you want to interpret the data. There is 'evidence' for a young earth and for an old earth. Only God truly knows the answer.
But your aiming your question at creationists; there are many other (majority) Christian groups that believe in an old earth. Including Old Earth Creationists.

Answer 8

Interesting where did it say the exact age of this planet in the holy texts? One should also remember that many things man does he will later rethink into a more appropriate theory.

Answer 9

What you lack is proof that those remains are 600,000 years or 3 billion years old. Until then I personally will continue to believe in a young earth.

Answer 10

I think so, but those who follow creation believe that the methods of how we got those dates are inaccurate.