How old was the Earth when God Flooded it?

Question

ok.... If you dont think God flooded the Earth, how can you give me an Age of the Earth when God flooded it if it wasn't flooded? And I'm talking about the Time he told Noah to build the Ark.

I figured it to be 1659 years old. From the time Adam was created to the time Noah was 500 years old. If thats true, the Highest mountain couldn't have been TOO high unless it was "built" by God to be that tall.

if the Earth was less that 1700 years old, where do we get off saying the Earth today is Billions of years old? Are the fossils dated wrong? Or did god put really old fossils in the Dirt because he knew we would dig them up later and wanted to give us something to do? I thought Mountains "grew" because the plates of the Earth would smash together and with nowhere but up or down to go, Up they went making mountains. and the the Earth was once one continent, I guess there really is no way to say how high mountains were or if they were as high as the mountains today.

Answer 1

1st time or second?

Answer 2

You have to really like atheist, they love to proclaim how intelligent and open-minded they are and then they always like to give out sarcastic, close-minded and outright stupid answers. Like God is a myth, the flood is a myth, the water could never have reached above the mountains as high as they are today or where did all the water go. The problem is they see the world today and believe that it has always like this and can't comprehend the possibility that the world is the way it is today because the flood did happen. Creationist have studied and proposed theories of the intracasies about the flood. Take the Grand Canyon for example, the fact is that there is one, but the question is how did it get there? Evolutionists believe it took the Colorado river a lot of time to carve the canyon. Creationists believe it was created by the flood. Which is more plausible? The flood activity had an effect on the heights of mountains and the depth of the oceans and if you want to know how just do the research. I am sorry I didn't respond to the question but other people have answered that, I just had to respond because I get tired of the atheist responding with answers that have no substance to them and yet they claim how smart they are.

As for the fossils, they are dated by the rocks that they are in. And when the geologic column was first created the rocks were dated by the fossils that were in them. However, now they use radiometric dating to date the rocks. Which the dating methods are all based on assumptions and are not as reliable as they want you to believe. The fact is they find fossils that shouldn't be where they are and they get out of whack dates and yet they hold to the idea that the fossil record developed slowly over millions of years. The fact is Fossils are formed when something is buried quickly in mud and water so you would think the majority of fossils were formed by some kind of flood. So again what is more scientific the flood or gradualism. Do some research, logic is not on the side of the evolutionists and neither is good science. The flood was the cause of the majority of the fossils that we find and there is nothing unscientific about that. Creationists took the eyewitness account of earth's history supplied by God, fit that with true scientific observation of the world around us and came up with a theory that explains the world around us. While evolutionists looked at the world around us believed that everything has continued as it has in the past and came up with a theory that explained how the world has gotten to this point. You see nobody changed the evidence or has actually done bad science they are just starting with 2 different view points. The difference is creationists use the words of someone that observed the history and realize that things weren't always the same as they are now. While evolutionists just assume that everything continues as it always has. I did an analogy on an earlier question that was deleted about a bath tub filled with water and even though there was a written note that said the bathtub was filled with 3 gallons of water 2 hours ago one person decided not to trust the note and did an experiment on how long it took the bath tub to be filled with water at it's current rate of 1/2 gallon per hour and decided it must have started filling up 4 hours ago. You see the experiment wasn't wrong and couldn't be proven wrong, but because the assumption was wrong his conclusion was wrong. That's what the whole argument comes down to.

Answer 3

The earth is around 4.5 billion years old. The flood supposedly occurred around 3500 to 5000 years ago.

You would be safe in saying that the Earth was over 4 billion years old when the flood was thought to occur.

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As there is no basis in the Bible to assume the height of mountains, and as we know that mountains form from cataclysmal events while gradually decreasing in height. In other words, they do not "grow" over time, they shrink. The mountains would have been higher at that point in time.

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There is not enough hydrogen to make enough water to flood the entire earth. Not to mention the various other problems with that story, such as Noah being 500 to 600 and only having 3 sons and no daughters, not to mention why his daughter-in-laws were saved but their families were not rightious enough to be saved - this does not ring true.

Answer 4

1,656 years, plus perhaps (in my thinking) the week of creation.

In Genesis chapter 7, we are told the flood began on the 17th day of the 2nd month in the 600th year of Noah's life. There ARE reasons why the dates and times are written out in the Bible. Using these dates, which includes the lists of the reigns of the different Kings and how long they ruled for, has enabled us to determine truly the age of everything.

Answer 5

The entire planet has never flooded to the tops of mountains. Never happened. Not possible. Try reading the story to learn about trusting God.

Much truth can be contained in myth and metaphor. God's truth is present in the story and that is the most important element. Focus on what really matters in the story - Trust in God.

Answer 6

God didnt cause the flood, god created the world and rested on the 7th day, and frm then on it was us (man) and the enviourment!! gawd told Noah of the flood and advised him to build the ark!!
no idno when it was, bt would be hard to figure out, because ther is BC before christ, cave men, dinosaurs.. and then AD the world startd over,

Answer 7

There was no GREAT FLOOD. It's scientifically impossible to have the flood told by the bible.

It would have had to have rained 211 inches per hour for 40 days and 40 nights to reach 20 feet above Mt. Ararat. If we take the highest peak of Mt. Everest, then it would have had to have rained 364 inches per hour. That's 3½ inches of water per minute for 960 hours, or 57,600 minutes total.

You are talking about increasing the sea level upwards of 16,000 to 30,000 feet. That's not isolated to one area either, that's around the entire freaking planet. So you basically increase the earth's surface diameter by 30,000 feet.

That is an ungodly amount of water... so where did it all go? Did it fall off into space? It really couldn't have sunk into the ground, or else the planet's core would be entire made out of water. So what did god do with all the water after the flood?

Answer 8

According to Biblical scholars, the date range for the time the flood occurred was sometime around 2400-2300 B.C. If you believe that the earth is only 6000 years old, then you can probably do the math from there.

Answer 9

The Earth has been flooding since very early in it's 4.55 billion year existence, however not the entire thing at a time and not at the behest of a supernatural being.

Answer 10

I don't know how old the earth was, but the flood was NOT a myth. Will you think it was when you stand before God at the Judgment??

Answer 11

Currently 4.5 billion years or thereabouts.
I say that because god has never flooded the Earth