who have determined that the earth is billions of years old based on scientific evidence.
what do you think about geologists who assert this without a religious agenda.
thanks
2007-09-18 08:21:26 · 18 answers · asked by jonsyaer 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How many times do we have to say it?
The majority of Christians believe in evolution!!! It is taught in Christians schools around the world! It was openly endorsed in a Papal encyclical! Good God, man. Do your homework!
2007-09-18 08:26:23 · answer #1 · answered by NONAME 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
"what do you think about geologists who assert this without a religious agenda."
Dawkins said in a book that most scientists come to science with an assertion that there is no God. That is a religious agenda. Geologists who try to actually be objective and are open to the existence of God I'll listen to, but any other scientist is practicing bad science.
2007-09-18 08:28:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont deny that the earth can be billions of years old, but it can also be very young. Even in the Bible there is no determination as to how long the famous "day 1" was. I do question the ability of man to really get a good idea of age past a few hundred years and know that when God created a mountain, He created it with years in it, He didnt create it as a grain of sand that will some day become a mountain.
Feel free to discuss this on my new debate group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/clean_slate/
2007-09-18 08:29:15 · answer #3 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christians that have a problem with it are misinterpreting scripture... just like Lightfoot and Ussher did hundreds of years ago with their 4004 BC creation...
Dating of minerals is mostly done based on tiny formations in rocks called "radioactive halos." These result when a tiny speck of radioactive material is trapped inside a crystal. As the radioisotope decays, the particles it gives off leave "rings" in the surrounding material. The distance from each ring is proportional to the energy of the particle given off. Thus, by measuring the different distances we are able to identify the original isotope and then use information on the half-life and decay properties of that isotope to "date" the formation of the crystal.
alleninthehills is quite full of bologna. C14 dating IS ONLY APPROPRIATE for biochemical samples, NOT geologic samples. And is accurate and appropriate for samples to about 50,000 years... not their fictional 16,000.
2007-09-18 08:38:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is fact and no where in the bible does it say that the world is not billions of years old. It's just that Creationalist Christians interpret a "day" in Genesis to be a 24 hour day and the rest of us can interpret it as a much broader amount of time because the Apostle Peter wrote, "A day to the Lord is as a thousand years." So the days spoken of in Genesis could've been thousands of years of more in length.
2007-09-18 08:32:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do wonder how can you know if certain signs of age mean something is a million years old or just 10,000 years old. For example, I may know, or believe, that one rock is twice as old as another, but is that 1,000,000 compared to 500,000, or 5,000,000 compared to 2,500,000?
However, I'm not one of those absolute Biblical literalists who insist that the world is only 6,000 years old. God is capable of poetry and symbolism. I'm not making a definite decision in my mind about which is factually right. I can see how either one can be true--and maybe one is true scientifically while the other is true poetically.
2007-09-18 08:29:16 · answer #6 · answered by MNL_1221 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plenty and fossils are formed when a carbon based life form is buried in sediment. The life form decomposes leaving an impression in rock. In order to get complete fossilisation the carbon based life form would need to be buried quickly. Strangely enough this would be the exact scenario if some great catastrophe such as a world wide flood had taken place.
2016-05-17 22:05:45 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of the top Geology department's in the world is at BYU. Provo Utah. hmmm a Christian based university with a big geology department that also studies dinosaurs. Must be more then a coincidence.
2007-09-18 08:27:48 · answer #8 · answered by Coool 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How was it determined? Carbon 14 dating?? you might want to check, there are quite a few problems with that notion. mainly it does no work at all past 16,000 years. but you don't read much about that do you? you reckon the ones who hide such facts have a "religious agenda"?
2007-09-18 08:39:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh, yeah, I remember all that "scientific evidence" being explained in school. There is a lot of "scientific data and evidence" to be found behind the following excessively used "scientific" words / phrases.
_________________________
"believe"
"might have"
"may have"
"probably"
"could have"
"for at least"
"believe it may have been"
"it probably had"
"about (fill in the number of millions or billions of years here)years ago"
"may have had"
"scientists believe"
"apparently"
"many scientists 'suspect' "
"perhaps less than"
"can imagine this to be"
2007-09-18 09:47:13 · answer #10 · answered by yahweh_is_the_lord 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Christians who believe in an old earth have no problem with what you just said.
The Christians who believe in a young earth simply assume that geologists are failable human beings whom are simply mistaken.
You're welcome.
2007-09-18 08:28:05 · answer #11 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋