I came on yahoo answers a few months ago and I'm shocked!?

Question

I can't believe how many people believe that the earth is a like a thousand years old. Before I came here I never met a person who believed that. I'm just wondering is this a common belief in the United States? I thought every state taught evolution except in Kansas. So I'm also wondering why there are so many people who believe evolution involves us evolving from monkeys. Even though these are not my personal beliefs, I don't judge those who believe the earth is a thousand years old. I just want to know if that's really a common belief in the United States, or if it's just a common belief on here.

I said "like a thousand years old" meaning they believe in a really young earth. Obviously they never heard of exaggeration. I guess that's why they believe the earth is like 6000 years old and stuff.

Answer 1

Americans are stupid

Answer 2

I do not know anyone who thinks the earth is only around a 1000 yrs. old...... some say millions some say around 6-10 thousand..... I say, there is NO way to really know..... I do not believe in evolution as most see it, I believe in adaptive evolution, that a certain species grows and changes, from BASIC being to a more adaptable being, depending on environment, the Bible nether agrees nor disagrees with this... but, LOGIC, yes I said LOGIC, demands that we humans, even Christians, look at the changes of certain species and can see the adaptions they have made....... God created all the BASICS time has changed them...... I leave the earths age alone, it is one of those mysteries that may never be solved...... and so what ?? what difference does the age of the earth matter.....and common belief is subjective..... asking EVERY person in the USA what they believe would take many, many years, so NO ONE on here knows how the population of America feels....... they speak their OWN opinion and that is ALL that it is....... go in peace..... God bless

Answer 3

One NASA scientist became a young earther when he calculated the level of cosmic dust on the moon for the lunar landing using an old earth model of 4.5 billion years and figured the surface of the moon to be covered in 3 feet of cosmic dust.
Turned out to be 3 inches.
The popular beliefs of evolutionist rely on RELATIVE dating methods. I hope everyone takes time to study how they actually date and you will see that there are MANY assumptions involved with all the various dating methods and calibrations. The sad part is it all hinges on these few "elite" scientists that mostly gauge the relative date on where the archaeologist says she found it in the strata. Mostly evolutionist's need an old age or lots of time for their theory to be plausible without it their theory goes down the toilet.
Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice by Paul Bahn covers just about all the dating methods used. It's good reading but still doesn't cover some obvious assumptions that are involved in the various methods. Like Potassium Argon dating of volcanic rock. Potassium decays to Argon gas at a rate of 1.3 billion years(they don't explain how they know this) however, the assumption is that Argon gas is present in volcanic rock due to Potassium decay. Why would the not assume that Argon gas is a product of chemical reactions brought about by the heated elements of molten lava and not decay. Gas being trapped in volcanic rock cooling seems more logical to me.
All the dating methods are really dubious when you study them and anyone who stands on them is standing on a foundation of multiple assumptions and not solid knowledge. That's why it's almost laughable when I hear someone say, "This tree is 330 million years old." They can't really know that.
Anyway, science aside, many people Believe the Bible which starts with historic man somewhere around 5000 BC. The history of man profoundly starts in the Middle East. The fertile crescent the "Cradle of Agriculture" starts right where the Sons of Noah are distributed. All ancient cultures record a great flood event. All fossils are embedded in sediment by a flood or frozen quickly by sudden deluge of water(mammoths)
If you extrapolate the human population barring birth and death rates if puts human population back to about the same time. The relative small human population is a grievous problem for evolutionist today because if man was 60 million years old then our population should be in the hundreds of billions instead of 6 billion. There is a relatively small population of animals only some 48 families of animals existing.
In other words there are other ways of looking at the world and the evidence that exists then through the "scientific" and some of that is not so scientific lenses.

Answer 4

I've lived in the US for 70 years and the theory that we all evolved from monkeys has been going around-but no one I know takes it seriously. I had never heard how old the earth is.
I've been spending my time raising a family and being a nurse. I'm retired now,so maybe I'll do some research on these things.

Answer 5

Pardon, but who exactly believes the earth is 1,000 years old?

Forgive me, but you really should study the facts before asking questions that make you look foolish.

The year is 2007 AD. That means at least 2,000 years have come and gone since Christ walked the earth, and prior to that another 4,000 years or so since Adam and Eve fell from God's grace, so I really don't know WHERE you get the idea that ANY body thinks the earth is a thousand years old.

As far as the actual age, all we can surmise is that approximately 6,000 years have passed since Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit.

We don't know how long they were in the Garden of Eden before they ate the fruit, and we don't know how long prior to God's 6 days of formatting the earth that He first created the heavens and the earth.

Additional Comment to Brent Y:

It has been statistically demonstrated that homeschooled children and children in Christian educational facilities rate higher in all testing for the same grade levels, so where did you get your nonsensical ideas from? Is this yet another attempt at tearing down strawmen? Get your facts straight buddy boy!

Answer 6

Yeah people are still dumb. Even though Chinese history can be dated back almost 9,000 years and dinosaurs millions of years people will insist on retarded opinions.


Modern geologists consider the age of the Earth to be around 4.54 billion years (4.54×109 years).[1] This age represents a compromise between the interpretations of oldest-known terrestrial minerals.

Answer 7

I had this really surreal discussion with a Christian the other day, and she posited that proof of God could be found in the fact that the sun is unique and gives the earth life. I then mentioned that every star in the night-sky is actually a sun, and that ours is actually really average.

She denied it, and said that the stars were not suns, because in genesis the sun was put there before the stars were. Granted, she wasn't an American, but I thought this needed sharing...

Answer 8

Where did you get that idea? America has the typical Information coming at it on all the airwaves that the earth is "billions of years old" (just a theory by the way) Many Christians believe it's about 6000 years old. The 1000 year old theory I have never heard of.

Answer 9

No one says it is 1000 years old. It is about 6000 years old. That shows how uninformed the ones who were taught evolution are. At least Kansas students probably have that correct.

Answer 10

The percentage of adults who believe that "the Bible is the actual word of God and it is to be taken literally, word for word" is 5 times higher in the U.S. than in Britain.

Belief in creation science seems to be largely a U.S. phenomenon among countries the West. A British survey of 103 Roman Catholic priests, Anglican bishops and Protestant ministers/pastors showed that:

97% do not believe the world was created in six days.
80% do not believe in the existence of a literal Adam and Eve. They believe in the spiritual message of the allegory.

Gallop Polls continue to show that creationists continue to be older, less educated, Southern, politically conservative, and biblically literal, female and African-Americans were more likely to be creationists than whites and men. While younger, better educated, college gradutates, mainstream Protestants and Catholics were more likely believe evolution as valid scientific explanation for the development of life on earth.

Answer 11

They believe it's actually 6000 years old.

There's even a Creation museum in Texas too.

And it's more common than some people think.