New Dinosaur found, how is it possible that it is 110 million years old when the Bible states that the........

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earth is only 6,000 years old and the Bible is Gods word and can not be wrong? Is that the work of the Devil once again? Or is it all part of God's plan? Or is it that the Bible is just a terrible story? If people are to believe in the Bible, then they should believe in all of it, which states that the Earth is only 6,000 years old (going back through the geneology).

For those people who are wanting me to provide where it says in the Bible, check out these links.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Earth_creationism

http://independencebaptist.org/6,000%20Year%20Old%20Earth/6,000_year_old_earth.htm

http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/re1/chapter8.asp

For those who did not catch my sarcasm, I will try to put this in plain English, I am an atheist, I think the Bible is a bunch of terrible childrens stories that like all religious relics, should be put into the fiction section of any book store. The Bible is evidence of God, just like any book on Santa Claus is evidence of his existance too. Unfortunately some people (theists) can not seem to wrap their minds around anything that is not told to them by their preacher.

PS: To the theists who are wondering if I have ever read the Bible, etc. Numerous times front to back, went to Catholic school through to grade 12, studied Islam, Judaism, Christianity in University. Hence that is why I am an atheist. Saw the light and removed the brainwashing of religion.

Answer 1

hey jesussaves......you say this.......

"the earth is older then 6000 yrs.....according to the bible

men have neeb on this earth for only 6000 yrs...according to the bible"


and finish up with this........

"got to study to get knowledge"

Thanks a lot as*hole, I read that little ironic gem and totally spit my venti spiced pumpkin latte all over the screen and now the keyboard smells like cinnamon.........you owe me $4.50


I would address the rest of you thumpers but I have a mess to clean up, thanks for nothing "jesus", nice save ya made there.....

Answer 2

There is only one criteria for a book which claims itself to be word of God. There MUST NOT BE a single sentence which is against the proved truth. If there is a sentence which is against the proven facts, it can't be word of God.

However, there are certain theories which need to be proven yet like Darwin's evolution etc. Such unproven theories can't be claimed to be proven facts. Then there may be certain facts which are beyond our comprehension and the science has not reached to such a depth, such facts stated in a religious book may be given margin of truth.

If it is a proven fact that Dinosaur lived on earth 110 million years ago and bible says that the earth is just 6000 years old then the later can't claim to be work of God. As it is said that it was copied, copied, copied and copied for a number of times. It was word of God in original but after copying it didn't remain so.

Answer 3

The bible never stated the world was six thousand years old. That was the calculations made by James Ussher around 1650. The original bits of Genesis are open to interpretation, especially how long a 'day' was during the creation.

Only a very /precise/ Christian would stick firmly to Ussher's interpretation, and I believe the Catholic church dismissed claims the world was only 6000 years old some time ago.

Answer 4

I doubt it. you spot a similar reactions and arguments trundled out antagonistic to evolution: i.e. that technology isn't one hundred% fallible, that its approaches are mistaken and that's after all a manmade pursuit. at the same time as blind faith (that is basically a psychological condition) has an complete carry, evidence-depending approximations not often get a glance in. Christians might want to favor to ask themselves at the same time as the burden of evidence can ever be sufficient for them. technology has already dismantled the better element of the myth, that's left in difficulty-free words with faith-depending claims, and those relax on opinion, choose and peer help. some human beings look to have a morbid worry of a international and not using a caretaker and that i'm no longer positive something can get rid of that deep choose.

Answer 5

The bible DOES NOT state that the Earth is 6000 Years old.

Is states that God created the Heaves and the Earth in SIX days.

Days could mean stages, ages or something else, or it could be six literal days.

I'd like to point out that it makes no mention of how long Adam and Eve were in the garden before they sinned. That could be a very long time.

However there are plenty of natural reasons to conclude that the Earth is not older than 100,000 years.


The young faint Sun paradox

http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v15/i2/faintsun.asp

Answer 6

Just because you were raised to believe the bible is truth, doesn't make it to be true. It's instilled in people at young ages and that's what you're raised to believe. Many people don't think outside of the box. Read the bible in a questioning manner.
People say God loves all of us and wants the best for us. If this is true, then why is there war, tragedy, death??? Someone who says you can only worship them and only them... that says something right there! If you don't worship God, then you're going to hell. If that's the way God really is, then it's definitely not my god!
In other words, don't believe everything you read & hear!!!

Answer 7

All dating of fossils is arbitrary. All you can really say from the current dating systems is that this fossil seems to fall into this age category and that fossil seems to fall into another age category. Saying that a fossil is 110 million years old because of the rock layer it is found in, and then saying that a particular rock layer is 110 million years old because of the fossils found in it is circular reasoning.
Dating fossils by measuring radioactive isotopes has its dubious side when you consider that it is measuring those isotopes based on current concentrations of that isotope in nature. How do we know that the concentration of carbon-14 is the same now as it was 110 million years ago?

Answer 8

This is just an opposing point of view of the Bible. The way I see it, you have nothing to lose by not believing in God, accept the possibility of eternal life. Upon death I doubt we will get Punk'd and be told there is no God and be made a fool of but maybe that is why some people are afraid of believing. I (personally) believe will all my heart that God exists and I'd rather be with the group that has eternal life than eternal damnation. Just another point of view so take it for what it's worth.

Answer 9

Well of course the dinosaur bones were planted in the ground by the devil to send us astray! LOL!

Clearly the Bible is full of errors and contradictions. Some will say that it is petty to point out these errors and that they don't take away from the real message. Well the problem is these errors number between 300,000 and 400,000 and those are just the ones we know about. The original writings are so long lost, all we have are copies of copies of copies... etc. Some of these written many decades later. So how can you trust that anything written in the bible is the original message? More pertinently, who cares? It's a montage of random periphrastic ramblings.

Answer 10

What?!? The world is not 6,000 years old? That is a travesty, the Bible says it is, so therefore regardless of the evidence the Bible must be believed, lol.

Once again the Bible is beat up on, it will be interesting to see what the Christians say about this one. But then they will again want their cake and eat it too. Because only parts of the Bible should be taken seriously and the rest are just stories, but then it is all written by God, but they seem to know what he intended to be taken literally. But amazingly they all contradict each other on that literal part, so even they can't get it together. I guess they need another Council of Nicea to re-invent their religion. An invented religion that can not get it correct, good one guys.

Answer 11

All that education and you still can't point out the specific scripture that states that the earth is 6000 years old. I ask for scripture and you give websites with others interpretation.
I want to know from YOU , not others, where in the Bible it states the earth is 6000 years old.
I want YOUR interpretation.
Be specific.
I do take the Bible literally and it does not state anywhere in it that "through genealogy the earth is 6000 years old". That is an interpretation of scriptures from a person.