How old do you think the earth is?

Question

and why?

Please be reasonable.

Im asking what YOU THINK! NOT THEORYS AND GOOGLE PAGES!

Yeesh!

Answer 1

About 4 to 5 billion years old :)

Answer 2

The REcreated earth is 6000 years.. but the earth that God created is much much older. There is an interesting verse in Genesis Ch1..something happened between vs 1 and 2.
Its says that " in the Beginning" God created the heavens and the earth.
Then all of a sudden we see in Verse 2 that the earth BECAME void and darkness was upon the surface of the deep.
This earth that God created in the beginning would be one that matched Him in all His perfection.
There is a theory that shares that between vss1 and 2 that the rebellion of satan took place. That the earth became judged because of this rebellion.
We realize also that Lucifer had already become Satan by the time man was made. He was already in the garden.. waiting for his time to deceive and usurp man.
We also realize that GOd uses an intersting word when He spoke to man and woman regarding the earth. That they were to be fruitful and multiply and REplenish the earth.
This Replenishing is crucial. Shows that the earth had to have been habitated in some way by other beings.. Not MEN but other beings.. that these pre-adamic beings sided with satan to rebell against God. It is thought that these beings were judged along with satan being cast out of the heavens. That the earth was judged and covered with the waters, the " deep".Its also shared that these disembodied beings are what we know as " demons' today. They dwell in the sea. This is one of the reasons why we see no " sea" in the new earth in Revelation.
So the enemy is in the Air and the demons are in people and in the sea. When the Lord Jesus cast out the demons from the man and they went into the swine.. they drove the swine to be drowned into the sea.. where they dwell.
Even before the Lord was crossing the Sea of Galilee to deliver this man, both the fallen angels in the Air and the Demons in the sea rose up to shipwreck the Boat that was carrying the Lord.

THere is much that has been shared regarding this matter that I found to be intriguing.
You may want to take a read. There are scriptural references to support this " Gap theory" or the " Interval" as others call it.

Here is a link if you are interested...
ITs called the " Life study of Genesis"
http://www.ministrybooks.org/books.cfm?id=%23%23%40O%2C%0A

Good Question
Sandy

Answer 3

Looks like that would be about 4.5 billion years according to science. I know there are some Christians tat put it at only about 6000. I recently became a Christian after being an athiest. If believing the earth to be only 6725? years old or even for the existence of man to be only 6735? years a criteria for being a Christian, I would remain an athiest. But I have been able to resolve some conflicts and it has allowed me to believe in God, believe in Jesus and why he was crucified for us. Call it all the really important things in the Bible. Will I ever belive so literally in the Creation or the Flood or some minor events. Sorry! I have to favor science there. But, hey, if you want to convert more athiests, this is what worked for me.

It also took the love of my life, belief and trust in her to be able to believe and trust in the God I had been seeking for 50 years. And though we differ a little on some things, we accept each others concepts. I still say if the Bible or any other holy book was pure fact it would no longer make religion a belief but fact. And I really suspect there would be only one religion. But that is not the case. Last time I checked there were 642 denominations of Christianity. So there are differences of belief. Enough to create the denominations. But I doubt big enough differences God will not acknowledge the effort. My own belief is that other religions and athiests will eventually get to heaven though a longer road. Surely God would not exclude a good person that had not even been given the opportunity to read the Bible.

To those that say 4000 BCE. I have in my own hands held clay cuniform tablets written prior to 3900 CE. Yes! They included the date though not by todays calendar. And I hals had Some Assyrian tablets that listed all the kings going back 1 million years. I don't buy that. But they mention a king by the name of Nuh in 85,000 BCE that seems to be the survivor of a ship he built that rode out a big flood. So, how's that fit in? I buy that account. And I have visited the ruins of cities that were pushing 9000 BCE. Just show me one scrap of the Bible that precedes 800 BCE. I know of none.
I am a Christian but I also have to accept science and other history. I know plenty of Chistrians that also believe men have one less rib than women per the Creation story. I took anthropology as well as paramedic training. Guess what? Same number of ribs. Take away the pelvis and one skeleton is indistinguishable from another as to sex. If you believe a man has one less, you are unresolvably ignorant.

Answer 4

I think that we have proof of a little over 6,ooo years. I believe in Creation and the theories of Dr Ham and his team. I want to go soon to the Creation Museum in Cincinnati Ohio. I do not believe that the earth is billions and billions of years old. If I'm wrong about that I'm sure I'll find out about it when I reach home.

Answer 5

Well from a Religious stand point it is
the earth is 6,420 (-91 / +155) years old, or from 6,329 to 6,575 years old

But scientifically it is about 5 Billion years old.

Here are two sites you can view.

I think it funny people is only roughly 6000+ years old!! Their carbon based relics found dating older than that SMASHING that theory!!

Now maybe that is when HOMO SAPIENS started organized villages started but not Homo Sapiens themeselves are about 15-30 thousand years ago by science not 6000+ years. WE know that the Egyptians were doing things in 6000 BCE which is OLDER than this.

The one thing I like about science is that is accepts that it is not perfect and can make mistakes and if you can can prove something wrong by showing new evidence than it can change things and be accepted globally on a scientific level. Why cannot the churches do the same thing be so flexible? Written texts of all the great prohphets were written down to text form hundreds of years after their deaths so who to say how accurate they are or are not?

At least science accepts its internal flaws, i wish Religion would as well. Some people of course do.

Answer 6

According to the Bible it is about 6000 years old. Yes, I know there are those who will say but carbon dating shows it is billions of years old!!! Well the scientist carbon dated the lava flows from Mt St Helen's which erupted in the 1980's I believe, and it date to be billions of years old. Well it should have only been about 25 years old, so that tells me that something is amiss with all this carbon dating. Besides that I just take it on faith what the Bible tell me.

Answer 7

I too will go with about 5billion years. AND, it has been proven that Carbon dating doesn't work accurately, but potassium argon dating does, but that has to be done in volcanic areas, and, we have primate bones several million years old. It would have to be millions, if not billions of years before that that life first occurs, and the instability of the atmosphere before that would easily put the earth at a few billion years.

Answer 8

I go with 4.5 billion years. The geology of the planet agrees with that number. There are many different methods of dating rock that indicate that the earth is 4.5 billion years old.


Give or take a few hundred million of course.

Answer 9

The earth is around six thousand years old. The reason I believe this is there is no written, recorded history prior to 4000 B.C.

Answer 10

There is no real way to actually know. The best scientific calculations bring the earth to no more than 10,000 years, after which carbon dating methods break down (such as the living mullusk that was carbon dated to be a million years old!)

The Bible starts counting time from Adam and Eve's fall, and then the geneologies fill in the number of years from one generation to the next, so from the fall of man to the present day is approximately 6,000 years.

But we don't know how long from Adam and Eve's creation till they fell, nor do we know how long from the original creation in Genesis 1:1, and the recreation after the cataclysm in Genesis 1:2.

What ever else you say, PLEASE don't say that each day in Genesis 1 represented 100,000 years, when it clearly states that there was evening, and there was morning (a cycle of darkness followed by light) that made up one day. Do you realize how slowly the earth would have to move on it's axis to cause 50,000 years of darkness followed by 50,000 years of light? And with friction, how could it speed up so suddenly so that each cycle of darkness/lightness went from 100,000 years to 24 hours???

Of course people never take into account the rate of change when dealing with aging.

If you were to take the average height of a high school student, and multiply it by the average rate of growth, you would calculate that the average high school student was about 72 years old (go ahead, do the math for yourself!)

And again, if you were to use the average weight, and the average growth rate during those years in high school, again, the math shows them to be about 72 years for the average age of a high school student.

Likewise, if you measure the age of the earth and forget to factor in the rate of CHANGE of growth (like the high school student), you would calculate somewhere about 4 to 5 billion years, but - that's just nonsense, just like saying that the average high school student is 72 years old is nonsense, because we all know that the amount of change is greatest when the person is at his or her youngest, and the rate of growth drops with time.