How old is the planet earth?

Question

I would say 4.5 - 4.7 billion yrs. but some say 6000 yrs....what do you say?

Answer 1

You are close.

Answer 2

Scientific inquiry of the available evidence supports the theory that the earth is on the order of 4.5 billion years old.

A literal interpretation of the Bible creation story (based on genealogy and normative lifetimes) have some fundamentalists claiming that the earth is about 6000 years old.

I believe both cannot be equally true. I have to go with the 4.5 billion years, and assume that the creation story in the Bible is not intended to give an exact time line, but instead is intended to reveal important principles. From a spiritual standpoint, as it impacts how I live my life, it's not really all that important EXACTLY how old the earth is. What is important is how it came to be, and what my place and purpose is.

Answer 3

If you believe in the Bible it is 12,000 tops. If you are normal, and it seems you are because you about right. There are varying estimates but they all fall at about 4.6 billion years. Don't forget, a billion is 1000 million so even a tenth of a billion is a lot of years.

Sorry but IMO if you put the age of the Earth at four or five figures, you need a lot of help...

Answer 4

The ages and ages old earth Gen.1:1,2; Job 38:4-7,30-32 [ space ]; was prepared [ ages, eons, eras ], as that is what a day means in God's time for the intended inhabitant, Adam placed here 6073 years ago, when this time get to 6130, he was in day [ age, era, eon ] six 130 years. Gen.5:3; Rev.20:1-6,12,13; Jesus reign is 1000 years to make all as new as before Eden.

Answer 5

I'll go with the billions. There are burial sites in Ireland older than 6000 years.

Answer 6

Q: "if the earth is so old, how come no tree has ever been found to be older than 4000 yrs old (the flood occured about 4200 yrs ago)?"

A: "Earth's oldest living inhabitant "Methuselah" at 4,767 years, has lived more than a millennium longer than any other tree."

http://www.sonic.net/bristlecone/

"With this method of matching overlapping patterns found in different wood samples, bristlecone chronologies have been established almost 9,000 years into the past."

http://www.sonic.net/bristlecone/dendro.html

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ice core and varve dating can now be traced back several hundred thousand years. so far only radiometric dating can provide a date for the intial formation of the earth, about 4550 - 4500 million years ago. but this matches quite well with estimates of the age of the sun from models of stellar evolution, and the earth and sun are thought to have formed at roughly the same time from a solar nebula.

Answer 7

I know the oldest diamond found to date it some 4 Billion years old, and we have found the body of a man here in the U.S. that was proven to be 6,500 years old.

Answer 8

4.5 billion is the most commonly predicted. 6000 is only a jewish measure from the "evidence" in the bible

Answer 9

the world is millions and millions of yrs old, people have only been around for a few thousand yrs or so we are in the 2nd earth age the 3rd will come at the 7th trump

Answer 10

6000 yrs? no its not! its 4.7 billion yrs

Answer 11

the earth is NOT billions of years old. it is NOT true. why? think of this. if humans came mikkions of years ago, how big would the popluation be, especially at the rate it's going now?
the niagra falls is constantly moving backwards, so why hasnt it moved farther than it has now?
if the earth is so old, how come no tree has ever been found to be older than 4000 yrs old (the flood occured about 4200 yrs ago)?

i say that the earth is about 6000 yrs old, the flood occured about 4200 yrs ago, Jesus was born about 2000 yrs ago and here we are today doubting God's word and beleiving in man's incorrect theory of evolution.
how sad.