Age of the Earth?

Question

Let me ask a question that is more food for thought than anything. I know I am about to be ridiculed but I can live with that. On to the question.

When God created Adam and Eve, He created them full grown. They were never babies. They were created as adults with a certain age. So although they appeared to be say 25 they were actually only 1. Could He have done the same with the Earth. Could the Earth only be a couple thousand years old but God created it older the same as He did with Adam and Eve?

I am not searching to justify my faith. It is an interesting idea. That is all. Until God tells me otherwise I believe in a literal 6 day creation.

Parallax - it is not impossible to defend in the least. Quite simply the Bible is correct. Much of what science "knows" to be true today will be laughed at in the future. It happened in the past and it will happen in the future.

Answer 1

Wow! I loved that analogy of the apparent ages of Adam and Eve with the apparent age of the earth. Makes beautiful sense to me. I wish I'd thought of it that way. Only the Holy Spirit could have led you into such a thought. I too believe that the earth is about 10,000 years old. Why should we care if non-believers laugh us to scorn? Unbelievers have always laughed at the Prophets of the OT. The Lord too was laughed at and jeered when He walked this earth (He was the song of the drunkards.) and being His followers we cannot be above Him.

Answer 2

Before it was simply too embarrassing to do it anymore, bibles used to give the exact year, 4004 BC, that the earth was created. But in the wake of the advancement of the sciences, this became so utterly laughable that the date was very quietly omitted in subsequent editions of the bible. There have been many attempts by the Fundies to shuck and jive their way out of this impossible to defend position (such as: "back then a year was not the same length as it is now"), but of course they are pretty well stuck on this one. What this means is that from page ONE and continuing to the back cover, the bible has been exposed as a total fraud.

Answer 3

Mr.Edge Sweetie. I don't know the answer to this,but It does raise some Interesting thoughts.I too believe the earth was created In 6 days,and God rested on the 7th.I am Interested In seeing what some will say. This doesn't apply to the ones that mock or like to take potshots. BUt like Mr.Edge,I am secure In who I am and to Whom I belong, Jesus Christ. Blessings....

Answer 4

All I can say is this: If you believe in an omnipotent being that can bring everything we see into being, then I have no doubt that said omnipotent being could make everything look as if it had aged even though it hadn't. There would be no way to prove or disprove this.
On that note: I believe there is a teacup orbiting the planet Jupiter that is so small our satellites cannot detect it, and will continue to believe this until I see definitive proof that it is not there.

Answer 5

You are invoking the Omphalos Hypothesis, which is essentially the idea that the earth was created with the appearance of age.

It's a completely unsupported claim with no evidence to back it up, and you really start to split hairs with this, since you'll have to explain the difference between "age" and "time of existence."

You're also going to have to prove creation, as well as the creator.

Answer 6

For me, the problem with that kind of thinking is that once you believe that God faked the physical evidence, there is no way to be sure if anything can be trusted. And what do you make of "the heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament proclaims his handiwork", when the handiwork turns out to be trickery?

Answer 7

If you're capable of believing in a god or gods, you're also capable, as well, of believing that anything's possible, no matter how far fetched?

Answer 8

I think when you have to try really hard to justify your faith, perhaps you should look more closely at other inconsistencies.

Just my opinion.