So the world was created 6,000 years ago?

Question

Really? How come that decent intelligent people genuinely believe so. How come that the very religion I was raised in must be wrong. Come on, how can you look at Sumerian tablets and continue to maintain that these guys did not exist because "our" god couldn't possibly be around then. And they could WRITE, they actually invented the bloody thing about 10.000 years ago. Carve in stone, for that matter. Makes you think.

Answer 1

Facts and evidence are the devil. Fossils are satan's tools! No one can sway me on the age of the earth. I think the earth is three weeks old and all scientific evidence says I'm right!!!
Just look at the geologic strata, it's evidence that a worldwide catastrophe happened approximately 2 and half weeks ago that buried all the animals according to how slow they were. Slower animals are buried deeped because they couldn't run from the catastrophe fast enough. Nobody can convince me otherwise. Thinking is the devil.

Answer 2

The Bible doesn't actualy quote a date for either the beginning of the world or the beginning of civilisation.

However the Summerians don't help YOUR argument because their Empire only started around 4000BC which means it was about 6,000 years ago.

In 2000BC they were conquered by Sargon the Akkadian
and in 1,900 BC Hammurabi invaded and formed the Babylonian empire.

Neither a young earth or a very old earth would conflict with the Summerians or with the Genesis account of creation, so I'm happy with whichever eventualy proves to be correct.

While the date of the Summarians is known,at the moment the jury is still out on the age of the earth because our various dating methods all have flaws - some rely on circular reasoning and others rely on a set of unfalsifiable assumptions and if those assumptions are wrong then the dates will be wrong. There are many examples of recently made/formed objects testing to be millions of years old. When different testing methods give different dates, scientists seem to choose the one that agrees with their pre-conceived idea of what the age should be and they discard the others!

Last but not least, if God exists and therefire everything was created by a supernatural being with virtualy unlimited powers and abilities, then it is conceivable that he could have created Earth and the Universe already aged just as he created Adam as a mature 30 year old man.

Adam did not have to start as an egg and slowly evolve into a fully grown man, so why couldn't the universe have been created already suitably aged and matured?

You might say that defies all the known laws of science, but so does the instant of the "Big Bang" and the events that immediately preceeded it, because all our known laws of physics, chemistry and biology came into being AFTER the big bang. (Assuming that a big bang was indeed how it all started, which in itself is a moot point.)

Answer 3

No, the world was not created 6,000 years ago. 6,000 years is supposed to be the length of time that man has been on the planet. The idea came about when Bishop Joseph Usher trawled through the Bible, guessed at the ages of all the descendants from Adam and Eve up till Christ and arrived at 6,000 years. Oh, Jehovah's Witnesses think along similar lines.

The truth of the matter is that planet earth was created millions of years ago and if anyone cares to read the first few verses of Genesis carefully, they will notice that the earth was already in existence BEFORE God got to work on it to form light, atmosphere, water, etc.

Interestingly, the Hebrew word used in Genesis for day is "yom" and does not necessarily mean 24 hours. It can refer to 1,000 years or more - in other words, a period of time. There is therefore no conflict in how Genesis describes the formation of life on this planet and the scientific facts that prove earth has been around for millions of years.

Answer 4

Generally those who take the Bible creation literally (taking each day to mean 24 hour periods and not one day equal to millions of years to go along with evolutionists) believe LIFE on earth was created about 6000 years ago, not the age of earth. The popularly accepted year is 4004 BC. This has been computed using various geneologies and the time periods mentioned in the Bible. According to this belief the earth itself could be billions of years old. No problem with that. For example, if God decides to create life in Venus today the account would read something like this - "And Venus was dark and hot, covered with thick clouds raining sulfuric acid...." while Venus has been around for eons.

There are others who believe everything including the earth, other planets and stars were created 6000 years ago. No problem with that either! After all, how old was Adam when he was created? I'm sure all the methods of determining a person's age (teeth,bone x-rays etc.) would have shown him to be a mature adult when in fact he was just a few minutes old! This is how things can present when you take divine intervention into consideration.

As to your 10,000 years, difficult to accurately say it is 10,000. The various dating methods give only an approximate time period.

Answer 5

There is absolutely nothing in the Bible that requires me to believe that the earth was created 6,000 years ago.
This foolish debate between religion and science was started by some imbeciles who think that they, and they along, hold the truth...and that includes arrogant "theologians" who think that they are the final repositories of all knowledge, since God "told them so" and egotistical scientists who are sure that they know everything, since they experimented in a laboratory and "proved" it.
The truth is, there is no conflict at all between God and science.
After all, He invented it.

Makes you think.

Answer 6

Ëver heard of the game "Whispers"? That is all the bible is about. Translation after translation from one ancient language into another and then into more modern forms has twisted the whole thing. Yet still people insist on picking on particular words and reading into them all kinds of significance when either none was intended or through distortion mean nothing.

Answer 7

Where did you come up with 10,000. Most experts set the dates of the oldest clay tablet writings of Sumeria at about 4000 years old. the highest Ive seen is 5000. One of the most famous clay tablets that corroborates Noahs flood is dated at about 4000 years .

Yep, I still say the earth is about 6000 years old. About 4000 years ago there was a flood , about 2000 years ago Christ was born , crucified and resurrected, any time within the next few decades Christ will make a spectacular return to earth and rule for 1000 years . Add it all up it comes to 7000 years . Funny thing the way the Lord likes working with 7 's . 7 days of creation, 7 sabbaths to pentecost, slaves go free every 7 years, 70 years exile in Babylon,Lemech lived 777 years, Soloman had 700 wives, God reserved 7000 that had not bent their knees to Baal.

Makes perfect sense to me , 6 days for God to work , create man and the earth 1 day for God and man to rest , 6000 years to for man to work & reign on earth 1000 years for God to reign on earth. ........Then eternity in heven or hell.

Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

Are you ready?

Answer 8

actually, writing IS about 6000 years old, and civilisation (cities, agriculture, etc) is about 10,000 years old. for people who think that human civilisation on earth is the only thing that matters, it is not a stretch to believe that the earth is no older than that. of course they're ignoring mountains of evidence that shows they're wrong, but that never stopped anyone from believing something.

Answer 9

here's an interesting fact.
when you talk of the world's age, and relate it to yourself, or ourselves, as people, and our minds being current reality, well, science is just books, tv, and films, and people telling us this rock, sand, or fossil, is "x" thousand years old.
Walk onto a film set, they will be days old. But theyre there.
Now the only real fact: all of us, only go back, in converstion, to our grandparents (living memory). They, only go back to thiers...(they never say, i remember my great, great gran telling me THEIR granparent....) NO.
Grand parents, at most, recall thier grandparents.
Thats 6 generations, max., in provable, living memory.
About 200 years, absolute max.

Answer 10

No the earth was created 4.5 billion years by God through the process of Evolution.