how long has the earth existed?

Answer 1

About 4.5 billion years old. Plus or minus .1 or .2

Answer 2

How Long Has Earth Existed

Answer 3

The Earth formed a bit after our Sun, about 4.5 billion years ago.
The age has been calculated by using the half life of various radioactive elements in the oldest rocks.
It is NOT carbon dating which cannot work for objects over 100,000 years, and certainly not before plants evolved.
The Big Bang occurred at least 10 billion years before our solar system formed.

Answer 4

The Big Bang theory showed that in the beginning all the objects in the universe were of one piece and then were parted. This fact, which was revealed by the Big Bang theory was stated in the Qur’an 14 centuries ago, when people had a very limited knowledge about the universe:

Do not the Unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together (as one unit of creation), before We clove them asunder? We made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe? (Surat al-Anbiya, 30)

As stated in the verse, everything, even the ‘heavens and the earth’ that were not yet created, were created with a Big Bang out of a single point, and shaped the present universe by being parted from each other.

Answer 5

I'd go with 4.5 billion years. Although I do believe in the 'big bang' and 'evolution', I remain certain that they are entirely driven by a creator.

Let's look at the first example of why for me a faith in science without God just doesn't cut it - Evolution.

According to Darwinists things 'adapt to survive', and things 'survive to reproduce'. Consider Bacteria. Bacteria have been around for 3.5 billion years and when I sneeze I can get 100 billion of them on my handkerchief. Unlike us, they can double their population in an hour. Now consider humans. It's taken mankind 2.4 million years of life on earth to reach our population ceiling of around 7 billion - but look at what we need just to survive one day: clothing, food, shelter, transport, mental, physical and emotional health, diet drinks, health drinks, vaccines, cellphones, email and Ipods. Three-and-a-half billion years of life on earth and the best evolution alone can offer us is the chance, if we are lucky, to reproduce ONCE in thirty years, assuming the bacteria doesn't wipe us out first of course.

As for the 'big bang', probably the only reason I believe in that is because I don't think God could have come up with a harder way to do it. One often-quoted illustration is this: imagine Michelangelo deciding to paint the Sistene Chapel by carefully rigging explosives in paint cans and arranging everything just right before lighting the fuse and diving out of the building. (Sorry Mike, you're just not that talented...)

Furthermore, Einstein said 'Matter cannot be created or destroyed, only converted from one state to another'. Which is why Atheists hope (pray?) that no-one asks them the forbidden question - 'where did the big bang come from?'

Some people may think it is naive to believe in a creator as being behind life on Earth but quite honestly, if you're looking for a 'blind' faith, I suggest you try clinging to Atheism instead.

And don't even get me STARTED on string theory...

Answer 6

The Earth has existed for about 4.6 billion years.

Answer 7

Some Christian creationists will say it is about 6000 years old, giving a literal translation of the Bible. However, although I do not agree with the macro-evolution theory, I'd say about 4.5 billion years old (the universe is estimated at 15 billion years)

Answer 8

Radioactive Carbon Dating has placed the age of the Earth at around 4.5 Billion Years old.

Answer 9

About 4.5 billion years. As far as we know at this time. The estimate is subject to change. Because as species on this planet. we are still young & have a lot yet to learn.

Answer 10

Hello,

(ANS) Its been calculated by cosmologists, astrophysicists & astronomers that our universe was created from a single massive event i.e. the big bang and that this took place 35.7 billion years ago. This is when time & space was created.

The earth itself is estimated to have been formed around 6 to 7 billion years ago, but bear in mind that the earth then was nothing more than a sphere of molten material. Whats termed "magma" like lava that comes out of present day volcanoes, like the material that remains at the core of our planet to this day. There was no life at all, the conditions for life came much much later as the planet cooled down.

**The best estimates for the beginnings of life are 3 to 4 billion years, were talking the most basic like forms only though. i.e. the very start of evolution as defined by Darwin's theories.

Ivan