Many historical events have proved to be older than that.
2007-12-04 05:36:06 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Provide information? Didn't you finish high school CVO
2007-12-04 06:36:43 · update #1
Pathetic? You're rude and immature.
2007-12-04 05:38:16 · answer #1 · answered by Little Red Hen 2.0 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Actually, the belief that the earth is only 6,000 years old is not a strict Fundamentalist belief. The Hebrew word we translate as "day" in the Genesis creation account doesn't necessarily imply a 24-hour day; the word merely means a measure of time. So technically, we have no idea what God meant when He used that word -- a day could be a millisecond or 10 billion years.
I am a Fundamentalist, but I reject the notion of a "young earth." It's silly on several different levels.
2007-12-04 13:42:39 · answer #2 · answered by Suzanne: YPA 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
No, they haven't. No one has ever proved that anything is "millions of years" old. That's just a guess, and not a very good one. It's based upon faulty dating methods in which they throw out all dates that don't match up with their preconceived ideas about the age of the earth. In fact, they have to throw out about 99% of them!
The fact is, they DO get dates that say that various fossils are only a few thousand years old, but because they already assume that dinosaurs died out "65 million years ago", they throw it out. How is that scientific?
2007-12-04 13:50:10 · answer #3 · answered by FUNdie 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I'm a fundie, Betty, and I don't claim any such thing. Not that it matters--trying to nail down the age of the earth in human years is profitless in terms of God's will for us today.
God bless you!
2007-12-04 13:47:20 · answer #4 · answered by words for the birds 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Don't you feel pathetic wasting your time discussing the matter? Who cares if someone thinks the earth is 6,000 years old or 60,000,000,000 years old. What difference does it make?
2007-12-04 13:40:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Its not a fundamental doctrine it is just something some white guy made up a long time ago. Most fundamentalist really don't give a damn.
2007-12-04 13:38:58 · answer #6 · answered by neveroutnumbered 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Scientists have dated the ice at the poles to be over 100,000 years old.
And that's just ICE!
2007-12-04 13:40:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
WHAT!!!! I thought the earth was 10,000 years old..
You mean its not that way??? Tell me its not so.....
2007-12-04 13:42:51 · answer #8 · answered by Looking UP 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We don't have to and many of us don't.
2007-12-04 13:38:33 · answer #9 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
please provide information on events older than 6000 years
2007-12-04 13:39:59 · answer #10 · answered by Carol 4 · 2⤊ 4⤋