How do you YE creationists feel when they're confronted with the proof that shows the earth is over 6000 yo?

Question

I mean everyday I read an article or watch a TV show that says this happened 50000 years ago or that a star millions of light-years away is doing something or a new evidence says that our hominid ancestors 500,000 years ago use to hunt like this.

How do you cope with all the evidence that challenges your beliefs everyday? Do you just somehow isolate yourself from the real world?

C. L. Richardson answered my question. Delusional...

Answer 1

There's a reason it's called blind faith. I had one actually say "God can trick you by making things aged". Do you think that she came up with this on her own or that perhaps her church is openly lying about the origins of the universe to its members to keep them in line (and keep the money rolling in). Any church that has taught that the Bible must be taken literally has to be a little nervous about the Big Bang Theory or the actual age of the universe.

Answer 2

What you read in an article or hear on television does not automatically qualify as evidence. All the nonsense that you hear about "Global Warming" today contradicts what these same people were saying twenty years ago when they predicted a new ice age.

I don't know how old the Earth is, and neither does anyone else. The idea that the Earth is millions or billions of years old is based on the evolutionary world view. In this scenario, the Earth must be very old in order to allow for the evolutionary process (which is so slow that no one has ever seen it). So, any evidence of a very old Earth is accepted, and any evidence indicating a relatively young Earth is rejected.

This is called circular reasoning. Evolution requires millions and billions of years, therefore the Earth must be very old. Any evidence which indicates a young Earth must be invalid.

That's how I cope with it. I don't isolate myself from the real world. I'm just a little more skeptical than you.

Answer 3

I know that you are going to call my answer, ignorant, and a cop out- however here it goes-
However old the earth may be God still created it, and there is no evolution. The time does not make as much difference as the fact, that there is an intelligent designer that created us and the earth. Just because an article or tv show says something, why do you believe that over, what the bible says? Maybe because if God did create the heavens and earth, you might have to admit that you are a sinner in need of a Savior. I am not pointing fingers by the way, I did admit I am a sinner.

Answer 4

Creationists come up with all these scenarios and explanations that are just conveniant to their cause. They'll say one minute that God created the universe 6000 years ago and then the next minute they will be faced with undeniable evidence showing that the universe is much older than that and they just say "well it doesn't matter how old the universe really is cuz God created it anyway"......yah great comeback genius.

Everything for them revolves around their faith and they just can't accept anything outside their belief system.

All the things that we don't yet have the mental capacity to understand well it's just so easy and conveniant to say "God did it" instead of actually using their brains to try and figure out the true answer.

Answer 5

Answer to Iraqisax-unfortunately, you've been believeing whatever nonsense you're told. The idea of an ancient earth is far older than Darwin. Charles Lyell, the father of modern geology, invented the classifications we now use for the ages of the earth in his 1830 book Principles of Geology-decades before Darwin.

Answer 6

I feel great thanks. Some were I've heard that mankind may have been on earth for 6 thousand years. But the earth is ancient and God is unfathomably old . Whoops I hope he doesn't get mad. how many breaths of air did you just breath. How many times did you blink in the last minute. Did you know God counted all the hairs on your body. God is outside of our understanding. His creation though is plain to see that it is intelligent design.

Answer 7

Mormons believe the earth was organized from materials already in existance, not just poofed and created.

We also dont know how long Adam and Eve were in the garden or how long a day is to God.

So scientific knowledge like carbon dating doesnt shake my faith one bit.

Science and religion can work side by side.

Answer 8

I think C.L. sums it up nicely for his kind. You can't teach someone that stupid anything relevant.

Edit: Keep adding to your list, C.L. It's be funny if it wasn't so sad.

Cat: Thanks for the opportunity to let me repost (with permission) an analogy for you and your ilk.

"Imagine that you are standing at some distance east of a tall building. A fence prevents you from getting closer to the building but does not impede your view. Suppose that you want to know the height of the building. What can you do?

Well, first suppose that you see three people standing close to the building in the distance. You can't see them absolutely clearly, but it looks like one is an adult man, one an adult woman, and one a child. You hold up a pencil, marking with your thumbnail the apparent height of the man. Then you carefully move your pencil up the building, one "man-height" at a time, counting the number of "man-heights" tall the building is. You find that it is 53 "man-heights" tall. You assume that the man is 5'10" tall, and multiplying, you estimate that the building is 309 feet high. You repeat the process with the woman, assuming her height to be 5'4". You find the building to be 54 "woman-heights" high, or 288 feet. Repeating the process once again with the child, you find the building to be 77 "child-heights" high. Estimating the child's height at 4'0", you estimate the building's height to be 308 feet. Based on the data gathered so far, you are justified in estimating the building to be between 288 and 309 feet high, or somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 feet.

Now suppose that you notice a man at the top of the building who is periodically dropping what look like bowling balls off the building. Deferring speculation on why he might be dropping the bowling balls, you time how long they take to fall and find that on average they take 4.4 seconds to fall from the top of the building to the ground. Knowing that the distance travelled by objects falling in the earth's gravitational field in a vacuum conforms to the simple equation,

Distance = 16t2

you calculate that the building is about 310 feet high, your calculation disregarding the effects of air resistance. This makes your estimate slightly inflated, though for bowling balls the effect is very minor. In any case, this is consistent with your earlier estimates and provides independent corroboration for them.

Furthermore, by measuring the time interval between when each bowling ball hits the ground and when you hear the noise of its impact to be a bit less than 1 sec., and knowing that sound travels at about 1,100 feet per second at sea level, you estimate that you are standing about 1000' away from the building.

Now the sun is setting behind the building, and just as the building's shadow approaches you, you whip out a foot ruler, hold it upright on the ground, and mark the ruler's shadow length. Measuring from the base of the ruler to your mark, you find the ruler's shadow to be 37" long. Based on the estimate of your distance from the building obtained earlier, simple algebra shows that a 1000' foot long shadow would be cast by a building that is 324 feet tall at that angle of the sun.

At this point you have three quite different and independent methods of estimating the building's height, and they agree that it is in the neighborhood of 300 feet tall, perhaps a bit more but certainly not substantially less. Now a man walks up to you and says, "Your estimates are all wrong! My book says that the building is really only about 1/200 of an inch (0.005 inch) high. All of your measuring methods are terribly flawed and your estimates cannot be believed. The building is actually less than a hundredth of an inch tall! You must ignore your measurements and discard the physics which underlies them." What would you say to him?"

Answer 9

There is no such proof.

When you want to find the age of something very old, you have two choices - use the dating method that is only accurate up to about 40,000 years -or- use the dating method that is accurate in the "millions & billions" range. Which do you think pop science turns to? If you use one dating method you'll "discover" that the earth is old. If you use the other method you'll "discover" that it is young. It really depends on the preconceived ideas of the scientists doing the testing.

Thankfully there are other ways to test the age of our earth.

For example, when we study the sun we see that it burns about 5 million tons of oxygen every second. Which means the sun used to be bigger. The earth can't be 4.5 billion years old as evolution claims because if it were it wouldn't exist - the sun would have been big enough to swallow it up only a few million years ago.

And if that's not enough, look at the moon. Not only have we discovered that the moon has only been collecting dust for about 6,000 years, but at the rate the moon is moving away from the earth it would have been close enough to cause the world to flood 4 times per day more than a few thousand years ago. Life never would have got started.

There are many more examples. You can look it up yourself.. There's no way the earth is as old as pop science claims.

Answer 10

What proof are you talking about. I have read no "evidence" that evolution is 100% true. Even Darwin himself refuted his own discoveries. The carbon dating systems have also been proved to be unreliable. Moreover, the radiometric[1] dating methods are even more inaccurate. It takes more FAITH to believe in evolution (the idea that something came out of nothing) than to believe that God created it all.