2007-09-15 09:22:53 · 5 answers · asked by Megegie 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
I think it is about 4.5 billion years ago because it has be scientifically proven as such.
2007-09-15 09:38:10 · update #1
4.5 billion because modern scientists tell us.
They're the scientists who harnessed electricity and sent 'us' to the moon.
I'd rather believe them than a 17th century religious nutter, named Ussher, who added up the generations in the bible (aka the Goat Herders' Guide to the Galaxy).
"Ussher deduced that the first day of Creation began at nightfall preceding Sunday October 23, 4004 BC in the proleptic Julian calendar, near the autumnal equinox, while Lightfoot similarly deduced that Creation began at nightfall near the autumnal equinox, but in the year 3929 BC."
Lightfoot was another religious nutter.
You'd be hard pressed to find a Jew who takes Torah (the first five books of Old Testament) seriously.
Why the fundies do, is beyond me.
2007-09-15 11:54:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I think that the Earth is about 5 billion years old, and that the universe is 14 billion years old, because that is what all our scientific observations say. We can see light from stars that are almost 14 billion light-years away. I do believe in God, but I can't find anywhere in the Bible where it says God created the world 10,000 or 5,000 or however many years ago. My Bible has little footnotes that say, "The Book of _____ was written between ____ and ____ B.C." but I can't find anywhere in the book where it gives clues to anything like that. Personally, I think someone either made serious calculatory errors somewhere, or just had a grudge against science and wanted to make everyone think that all science is wrong.
2007-09-15 16:35:14 · answer #2 · answered by cmh0114 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is about 4.55 billion years old. Using Lead-Uranium Concordia curves science has not falsified the hypotheses for an old Earth.
PS: Science cannot "prove" anything. It can only disprove through testing and falsification.
2007-09-15 17:41:00 · answer #3 · answered by Lady Geologist 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It is about 4.5 billion years old because every piece of scientific evidence-- geological, biological and computer models, etc. conclude that it is.
2007-09-15 16:33:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
as old as the hills
2007-09-15 16:30:52 · answer #5 · answered by Melted Snowman 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋