how far back do YOU think the world goes?

Question

I personally think it only goes back to a MAX of 10 thousand years, i mean how can they even tell how old something is, with a tool that SOPPOSEVLY tells them that its 6 million years old. What do you guys think?

thank you very much newcamper for respecting my christianity, faiths and being nice.

Answer 1

This has been discussed so often on here, I'm sure everyone's getting their hackles up to show off all they know about carbon or argon dating, or to overpower us with their knowledge of Genesis. Faith may tell you the world is a few thousand years old, but science really doesn't support that idea. But faith is a powerful thing, and chances are you're going to believe what you want to believe and no amount of evidence is going to sway you.

Answer 2

That depends on when you define the beginning of the world. as my belief system has it:

the creator of the world was a whirling nebulae that condensed into the sun, and as it did so, rings condensed and broke away from the outer edge, which became planets, one such ring eventually became earth, about 5000000000 years ago.

The earth's creator was itself created by a universe that was about 10000000000 years old, and had many stars already go through their life cycle creating the elements that we, ourselves are made of.

The history of this universe is not complete, as our knowledge of physics and math can only trace it back to about a billion billion billion billionth of a second after it began. What happened before then is a mystery to us.

so it is impossible to know exactly how old we are, or where we come from.

Answer 3

Actually you can tell how old most things are by many different methods. The Earth is about 4.5-5 billion years old, though it didn't form in a day.

"This age was determined by combining the interpretations of oldest-known terrestrial minerals – small crystals of zircon from the Jack Hills of Western Australia – and astronomers' and planetologists' determinations of the age of the solar system based in part on radiometric age dating of meteorite material and lunar samples."

So that's how old the rocks are anyway...I think we'll find in 30 years our measurement were a tad conservative,,,...?

BTW, The earth could easily, "go back". Guess what happened to venus' orbit and rotation?

Answer 4

The Earth is approximately 4.54 billion years old. The US Geological Survey article in my source list has a detailed explanation on how they derive at this date.

Answer 5

Opinions are irrelevant. Only evidence is important. The evidence points to the Earth being about 4.5 billion years old.

Answer 6

SOPPOSEVLY? Your knowledge of science seems to be exceeded only by your knowledge of the English language.

So, on what "tool" are you basing your opinion? Superstition and stories written by paranormal authors?

If you really want to convince anyone of your opinions, do some research about these tools. You'll have to look in a geology book, not a geography book.

Answer 7

The earth only goes forward not back.

Answer 8

It goes back 4 BILLION years, there's fossil evidence for almost 3 and rock and spectral evidence for more... easy enough to confirm!

Answer 9

seems like someone didnt listen much during earth science class.

Answer 10

It goes back all the way to the beginning, which was about 12,000,000,000 years ago.