your opinion,how old is the earth?

Answer 1

4.5 billion years, give or take.

Answer 2

First of all I want to say that I am a Christian. As to the age of the earth, there are two major schools of thought,
1) The earth is 6-10 thousand years old. This is taught in the mainstream churches throughout the world. The numbers are arived at by adding the ages of the patriarchs from adam to noah, noah to abraham, abraham to david, so on till the time of Christ and then we are close to our current calender. It requires very little time to explain this and thats generaly the reason it's adopted. However, anyone who has made it past the third grade comes to a problem, what about the bones? Where did these enormous monsters and apparent human like skeletons we dig up every day come from? Instead of studying God's word and looking for answers, they just tell people to smile be happy and tithe like good christians should. On to school 2 which I am a part of

2) The Gap theory. This theory requires you to admit God is a great big God and we are not as important as we think. It allows the earth to be millions or even billions of years old.

If you look at the first three verses of the book of genesis you find three distinct time periods. Gen 1:1 In the begining God created(hebrew Bara') the heaven and the earth. Gen 1:2 And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. and the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Gen 1:3 And God said let there be light. The reason I pointed out the hebrew word in verse 1 is because of it's meaning. The word Bara' in the hebrew literaly means to bring forth, to create from nothing. This word is only used 3 times in the first chapter of Gen. 1)when he created the heaven and the earth, 2)when he created the animals and 3) when he created man. It's a very special word.
In verse 2 we find a Chaotic earth, one in darkness and covered with water, empty of life. However in Isaiah 45:18 we find that God established the earth, he created it not in vain. so we either have a contradiction, or something happened between vs.1 and vs.2 to cause this chaotic state. BTW the word "was" in vs 2 can just as easily if not MORE accurately be translated as "became".
In vs 3 we find something new happening, God didnt create(bara') the light, instead he let it shine again upon the earth.
In vs 11 we find that God brought forth (not Bara')grass and herbs and trees "who's seed in itself , upon the earth" what does that mean? seed in itself upon the earth? it means the seed was already on the earth and dormant.
There is much much more evidense to pour over and if you feel like it feel free to write and I'll do my best to answer as God allows. P.s. Ever wonder where demons in the Bible come from? It's part of this study.....

Answer 3

Ooh. Heated topic.

I believe the earth to be about 4.5 billion years old as I trust the information of leading scientists who conclude this age.

Answer 4

According to the Book Of Urantia, as much as 4 Billion years old when first formed.
Rev. TomCat

Answer 5

At least 4.5 billion years old. Some whacked people believe 6000 to 7000 years old. Can you believe there are fools like that around.

Answer 6

My opinion does not matter.

Science dates the earth to be approximately 4.6+ billion years old.

Answer 7

Opinions vary.
For extensive treatment on this subject from an "old earth" creationist, astrophysicist Hugh Ross; go to:

http://www.reasons.org/

go to articles on "Age of the Earth"

Answer 8

its not about "opinion", its about physics, mathematics, and chemistry. The earth is roughly 4.5 billion years old. Anyone who says otherwise is in desperate denial of sanity.

Answer 9

I have no way of verifying this directly myself, but those who make a career out of it, and who compete with eachother for accolades - which keeps them mostly honst - say it's about 5 billion years old.

Answer 10

Somewhere in the 4 - 5 billion year range. (That's American billion, not British, if there's still a difference.)

Answer 11

4-5 billion.