Bible says the earth is only 5000 years old, but scientist dont?

Question

just wondering how the bible is true if the earth has been proven to be billions of years old, and the bible says it is only 4-6k years old.

thanks for all the replies. I am trying to figure this religion thing out. My parents are devoted Christians and i am 18 and cant figure out what to believe. I have grown up in the church but really feel no connection with God, it seems like the 300 people in my chruch believe in God, but i cant seem to get the same feeling.
So i asked this to try and figure things out. Sorry if the bible doesnt really say the earth is X years old, it has been a while since i have read it.

Answer 1

cause scientists want to show anything other then the TRUTH

they have no positive nor knowing way to date the earth
so they say its this or that to prove themselves correct

every one of them suppose it is of different age

the bible says this
" A thousand years is as a day and a day as a thousand years to the Lord "

in SIX days HE CREATED the heavens and the earth , on the 7th HE Rested from ALL HIS labor

a week is 7 years according to Genesis 29:27

and in Revelations it states "forty and two months is 3 1/2 yrs

and also "a thousand two hundred and ninety days " is 3 1/2 yrs

Its been 2000 and 7 yrs since the death and resurrection of Christ

the earth is 6000 yrs old give or take a few years

by Bible standards

and even the dinosours have proven
by contents found, tho scientists say billions of years
it proven they are not that old by the very animal we still have today called the crocadile
Cause the dinosour found in the dakota's with it was a crocodile....and if revolution proves itself to be true as scientists say then there is no way the Croc remains the same in Billions of years without revoluting !!!

and the Flood preserves animal . material , and plant life and stacks and accumilates tons and tons of debri which is preserved , thus appearing things to be older then they are
( that itself is a scientific proven fact , by the very scientists which say things are older then they are )

reason the BIBLE statements are true....fish with gills found on mountian tops thousands of miles from water...and land animals found in the ocean depths thousands of miles from any land.............
and this to scientists proven.....

so lets say this which is correct ?
I tend to believe the WORD which has proven itself through science and History and actual events recorded and proven
and its called the BIBLE !!

GODS WORD

" let every man be a liar , but every word of God be True "

Answer 2

The Bible *does* of course, say the Earth and Universe were made in a week about 6,000 years ago. The Bible has a great long genealogy from David or Joseph all the way to Adam. That's the part with all the "begats". If you add up all the begats and how old their father's were at the time of begetting then you end up at about 6,000 years ago. Anyone who says the Bible *doesn't* say this and blame it on the Fundies doesn't know their Bible as well as they should.

The linguistics of the Bible translations rule out the possibility that each day of Creation was a metaphorical day meant to summarize a geological epoch.

I'm an atheist so this isn't a problem for me, but I think the fundamentalists are conducting very bad science and the moderates are apathetic about their texts.

Answer 3

It's 6,000, and it's nowhere in the Bible. It's what Young Earth Creationist Christians believe as an age extrapolated by studying the Old Testament. Sadly, you'll see a lot of that here.

Answer 4

Christians will try to make the creation story literal where it suits their purpose and allegorical when the story doesn't match up.

A better question would be "The Bible says humanity is only 6,000 years old, but scientists don't."

This is because there is a lineage in the Bible from Adam all the way to Jesus. That lineage has to be literal, because the lineage of Jesus was a requirement for him to be the Messiah.

Modern humans have been around much longer than 6,000 years. Most anthropologists agree that homo sapiens have been around for 200,000 years.

Answer 5

Not true! Gen. 1:1 says that in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. How long that took is unknown.

The 6 creative days of Genesis had nothing to do with the creation of the planet. If you will notice in Gen. 1:2, it says that the earth was already in existence BEFORE the first "day" started, as is mentioned in the next verse.

The 6 creative days were huge periods of time in which Jehovah used to prepare the earth for animal and human habitation. The earth itself could be millions or billions of years old.

Answer 6

The data speak for themselves. Science involves the interpretation of that data. One of the fundamental precepts of science is that the natural world functions according to an internally consistent system. The data are interpreted according to this concept. If this assumption is correct, then clearly the earth is very very old, and quite probably something on the order of 4.5 billion years.

The bible says something else. The bible says that it is god's word. If you believe that, then clearly science has to be wrong.

My personal opinion is that the bible, at least respecting the early period (particularly but not exclusively Genesis) is a myth derived by man to explain our existence. It is similar to many many other creation myths in many ways. I see no reason whatsoever to accept the genesis explanation over any other culture's creation myth, and clearly they cannot all be correct, and in fact it is pretty clear, to me at least, from observation of the functioning of the natural world that none of them are correct.

I do not know how the universe came into creation. I do not know if there is a god. I only know that I cannot worship a creature such as god is frequently portrayed in the bible, and I cannot believe that such poor creatures as humans are the sole purpose of the existence of the universe. It is a pretty poor and imperfect creation for a supposedly infinitely wise and powerful creator to have produced as his main goal.
I certainly do not believe that humans are distinct from the rest of nature, or that everything around us was placed here for our sole aggrandisement.

There is nothing from science that says there is no god. In fact, many would state that what science has taught us has increased our understanding of the wonderous ability of the god that created existence. I am not one of them, but I certainly can see how that opinion would resonate with a lot of people.

Anyway, those who reject science have a reason for doing so. It is often not because the science is flawed, but because they wish to maintain man as the center of creation, which strikes me (again, my personal opinion) as a fairly selfish and egocentric philosophical position.

Science is not incompatible with god. However, the bible is frequently incompatible with science. Where does that lead your train of thought?

Answer 7

The early parts of the Bible were passed on orally before they were recorded... That is acknowledged by believers & non-believers...

In the Oral tradition usually the more dramatic events are remembered better... if that is true ; Why is there no mention of dinosaurs as part of the Creation story or the Flood story ?

My belief is that the Creation story was told in the way it was because the masses at that time found that story believable.. Someone writting a creation story today would do it differently.

Answer 8

Maybe the bible never says anything of the sorts. Maybe the bible is an esoteric allegory that was never meant to be read as a historical narrative and to do so in any manner is forfeiting your capacity as an intelligent being. The key of knowledge is to apply the scriptures within yourself. The bible has nothing to do with literal events, it is not about how the earth formed. It is esoteric towards the forming and structuring of the mind and being. It is a book towards preparation to enter the inner kingdom, so all of its aspects, stories, and such all reflect a reality of mind and being, it is illustrative to the natures we are imbued with.

Answer 9

Well, considering that the Earth's time is rapidly collapsing (getting quicker) and that we have recently transformed from a 24 hour day to a 16 hour day, it is possible that there may have been many more hours in a day thousands of years ago.

Even with this information, the hours in a day 5,000 years ago were probably still very insufficient in length for the entire Universe to have been formed. And that's why pretty much every scientist disagrees with Creationism.

Answer 10

but does the bible say that the earth is only 5k years old. it doesn't say the earth was created in 7 consecutive days for 100% certainty although that is accepted by many Christians. Also imagine the forces at work when God would have flung the universe into existence.....it isn't far off to imagine that those immense forces could have slightly accelerated the rate of aging that our scientists are seeing.....I dunno the important thing is that God made the heavens and the earth and that it was good.