Why do people say the world is 6000 years old?

Question

I have added up all the years of how long people lived in genesis from Adam-Noah, it equaled 8818 years
then i subtracted the years of the age the fathers were when they begat them
which was 4176 and I came up with 4432 years
in just that short time period from creation to the flood

if the world is only 6000 years old and where are in 2007 a.d
then this would have had to happen around 2425 b.c
Sumer (the first known civilization) was thriving at this time
so even biblically the world can't be 6000 years old

Answer 1

"At Oak Ridge Nat'l Labs, they tried carbon dating dinosaur bones.....they turned out to be thousands of years old, NOT millions. "

You need to do a little more reading. C14 dating is only good to about 50,000 years. Any self-respecting paleontologist or physicist knows that and would not use C14 dating for something that old.

Do yourself a favor a try (as hard as it may be) to learn something about a technology before making a fool of yourself by attempting to discredit it.

ADDENDUM

You would be well-advised to begin your quest for actual knowledge at something other than an anonymous creationist website. If you bother to read the claptrap at your link, you'll notice deceptive statements, totally discredited bunk, and outright lies.

Your intellectual integrity is in serious doubt.

Answer 2

> I have one science book that says the world is 6000 years old and another that says 10000 No you don’t. > The reason I think the Earth cannot be older than 6000 years is that in science we added up all the ages of the descendents of Abraham and it came out to this number... but some scientists have added up the years differently and came up with 10000... which scientist is right? Hee hee. OK, I’ll play: Both those estimates asssume that the Bible is correct in its list of descendants and their lifespans. There is no verifiable (testable) evidence to support that assumption. Conclusions based on untestable assumptions are not scientific. In this case they aren’t even Biblically supported, since the Bible tells you *twice* not to give undue heed to genealogies (1 Tim 1:4, and Tit 3:9).

Answer 3

the people that i have run into that say this fall into three groups:

1. those who just don't know historical data about other cultures existing before the biblical account of the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean region, and could careless about this information

2. those that are miss informed about these cultures and other historical documentation (i.e. pre-biblical cuneiform from Babylon), and are told anything that contradicts what they learned from the bible is the work of the 'Devil' and untrue.

3. those that are so sure what they are taught from the Bible is the one and only truth they will not stop to think about what is the information that is recorded history from other sorces around the world.

In the end it really boils down to some ppl taking what they are told is the truth and evry thing else is a falsity constructed to decive them away from the "One and only truth". *steps off soap box* Srry for the long diatribe/rant I am not saying I am right and those ppl are wrong I am just well informed on both sides of the question; and ppl have the right to think such things even if i disagree with them.

Peace and Blessed Be to All

Answer 4

I'm not questioning your math as it pertains to the Bible but 2425 bc was only 4432 years ago as you stated so you answered your question. The thriving of Sumer (as you say) was happening less then 6000 years ago. That gave them almost 1500 years to build that civilization. Now stop taking Genesis literally. Its a metaphore, just like Revelations. Do really think a beast with a thousand eyes is going to rise up out of the sea in the end and spew water out of his mouth to drown people? Be real.

Answer 5

I think first we need to address whether God is real....and then remember that it may not be possible to accurately determine exactly how old the earth is. I don't care how old it is. I DO care about how it got here.

Below are a few examples of why I doubt "science" to provide a definitive answer at this point.

"The troubles of the radiocarbon dating method are undeniably deep and serious. Despite 35 years of technological refinement and better understanding, the underlying assumptions have been strongly challenged, and warnings are out that radiocarbon may soon find itself in a crisis situation. Continuing use of the method depends on a fix-it-as-we-go approach, allowing for contamination here, fractionation there, and calibration whenever possible. It should be no surprise then, that fully half of the dates are rejected. The wonder is, surely, that the remaining half has come to be accepted…. No matter how useful it is, though, the radiocarbon method is still not capable of yielding accurate and reliable results. There are gross discrepancies, the chronology is uneven and relative, and the accepted dates are actually the selected dates.” (Dr. Robert Lee, Anthropological Journal of Canada)

At Oak Ridge Nat'l Labs, they tried carbon dating dinosaur bones.....they turned out to be thousands of years old, NOT millions. But because that didn't agree with science's preconceived notions, they tossed their results.

Then they tried some other methods....and again, results that didn't agree with the "accepted" notions. So again, they toss the results.

Answer 6

The world is a couple billion years old. That age changes whenever scientists discover something new, but whatever the case I think it's much older than 6000 or 8000.

Answer 7

They are following the calculations of a bishop named Usher 450 years ago. How stupid is that..

Answer 8

This article is pretty technical, but you may find your answer there: http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v2/n3/jesus-and-the-age-of-earth

This article may speak more directly to the question you're asking. It has a list of the Church Father's calculations which is actually really interesting as they of course were closer to the time of Jesus Himself: http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2007/05/30/how-old-is-earth

The Church Father who is most trusted on this subject has come to be James Ussher (14th-15th centuries): http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v1/n1/world-born-4004-bc

Hope those help!

Answer 9

People get to drawn into things, nobody knows how old the world is, the Bible doesn't make it clear that the world is 6,000 years old... Its all nonsense to pretend we know.

Answer 10

"Mr. Candidate, sir, given the overwhelming body of evidence from hundreds of different scientific fields ranging from archeology to physics to zoology, can you explain to us how you can seriously believe that the world was created 2000 years after the Babylonians invented beer ?" — Question suggested by Bombula for creationist candidates.

The world is about 4.54 billion years old.