I personally don't believe this but I've had people tell me that the earth is only about 10,000 years old (they're religious if you can't tell). I believe in God and have studied science in college. I don't see how carbon dating could be that far off. Also I can't see how the dinosaurs could've lived for so little time based on the sedimentary records. I just don't get it.
2007-12-20 21:49:25 · 11 answers · asked by Buddy_Lee_Hombre_de_accion 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Edit: Penster, how is the bible proof against God. It said that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, not DAY1 he created the heavens and the earth. Sorry, doesn't incriminate him.
2007-12-20 22:05:44 · update #1
Johnny cee, explain yourself. I read that scripture and definitely don't get your point.
2007-12-20 22:06:22 · update #2
The chosen one, God had to LEARN how to make us? He made the universe in a bang and then had to scratch his head when trying to figure out how to make us? I'm sorry, that just sounds weird to me. Got any proof of this by chance?
2007-12-20 22:11:51 · update #3
mgerben, thanks. You're right. People need to do start studying. This goes for both sides. Many atheists who answer my questions obviously have never so much as touched a bible but tell me what it says (and how it incriminates God). Many creationists who tell me about the history of the earth failed 9th grade science.
2007-12-20 22:41:39 · update #4
Foxfire, I've heard similar explanations like yours before. It does sound convincing, but after a little research it seems unlikely. There have been reports of transistors being found along side of brontosaurus bones. Carbon dating settled the issue and showed they were both far apart (plus, made in Taiwan will probably tell you the time period). Also the dinosaurs lost size (generally) over time. Each new species was smaller every time. The oxygen levels decreased gradually over the years. One way we know this is by sampling oxygen samples in amber droppings found over years. Animals became smaller to adapt to oxygen. If oxygen levels had plummeted over a thousand years the dinosaurs would've became extinct shortly after being started. The fossil record would seriously challenge this issue.
2007-12-20 23:19:53 · update #5
Don't worry about the carbon dating. The people who want to believe the Earth is 10.000 years old have worked that out, too.
And fossils were simply put there by God to mislead us into thinking the Earth is very old.
Basically, these people stick their fingers in their ears and sing 'lalalala'. They think that their belief must be proven or else it's worthless.
The Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, and the only people who contest this are those whose belief is not strong enough to reconcile these things.
Read up on radioactive dating, because there are MANY more ways of dating things apart from Carbon dating. They can't be all wrong.
It's also interesting to read the story of finding the age of the Earth: Did you know that the correct figure was only discovered in 1953?
People denying this are stuck in ideas from before that time and haven't kept up to date with scientific progress. And why should they? They already know the Truth, because they have a book. No need to read the scientific journals.
So that is why arguments that popped up in the 19th century can still be heard today.
2007-12-20 22:24:14 · answer #1 · answered by mgerben 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing in the Bible that says that the Earth is ten thousand years old.
That is a number picked out from people with no understanding of what is written in the scriptures.
The existence of Dinosaurs and the other animals of the early Earth are NOT in anyway contradicting the Bibles record of 'mans' or the 'Earths' creation.
However , in the minds of some , everything is a mystery.
For more Bible based info please feel free to email me.
2007-12-20 23:00:24 · answer #2 · answered by I♥U 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you think about it, the geological record is highly inaccurate at best.
Consider the Flood. You have a water-covered world gone berserk with incredible earthquakes rocking the planet from pole to pole, continents splitting apart and sliding to their present positions, and so on.
The sediments stirred by such a catastrophe must have been enormous in their magnitude, and took a while to settle out after the Flood waters had begun to subside, forming segregated layers that in some cases could be thousands of feet thick.
This left thick layers of mud and silt all over the planet, and such mud and silt can lithify (turn to stone) within a few short years. The huge rivers that formed as the Flood waters drained quickly eroded deep beds (such as the Grand Canyon) in the still-soft mud and silt giving the apparent age of millions of years for their formation, when it actually took only a few years.
The pre-Flood plant and animal matter was buried in the soft mud and silt, and quickly fossilized when lithification of the mud and silt they were buried in occurred.
Geologists have admitted that the gas pressure in oil wells is too high to have been there for millions of years. Over millions of years it would have dissipated and would have vanished.
The mountains are far too high and sharp to have been formed millions of years ago. They should show far more erosion than they do now.
Scientists have been able to synthesize oil from plant matter in a matter of hours by depriving it of oxygen and subjecting it to high heat and pressure.
The Flood would have met these requirements, in that the plant and vegetable matter would have been buried in mud (depriving it of oxygen), would have been subjected to tremendous pressure (weight of water and mud) and heat (volcanic eruption or magma beds).
Finally, there is a fossil footprint of a man's shoe that has crushed half of a trilobyte. The fossil impression is so clear that the stitching of the sole can be clearly seen, and the impression of the threads of the sole can be seen under a microscope.
According to evolution and modern science, trilobytes died out long before humans walked the Earth.
So is the Earth really billions of years old, or is the geological record skewed? And did mankind and dinosaurs co-exist?
Fossil evidence seems to point in that direction.
2007-12-20 22:56:49 · answer #3 · answered by Foxfire 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They were created by the same God Yahweh millions of years before He learned how to create us, the modern human. He wiped the last of them out with the world wide flood already in progress mentioned at the beginning of The First Day of Creation.
2007-12-20 22:06:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well I know the world is more than 10,000 years old. I believe science to be accurate and like you I believe in God. I don't get it either, I guess it's just denial and some fundementalist teachings.
I'd love to hear a debate on the issue.
2007-12-20 21:57:29 · answer #5 · answered by Choqs 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's simple. Dinosaurs were concurrent with the first millennium.
I Cr 13;8a
2007-12-20 21:55:13 · answer #6 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the dinosaurs were on this planet for 140 million years, i dont call this a short time...they were around much longer than we have been...
2007-12-20 21:58:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Prepare for some whacky leaps of the imagination and strange interpretations.
2007-12-20 21:55:08 · answer #8 · answered by penster_x 4 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Easy, those people are wrong. Stop stressing over it.
2007-12-20 21:54:43 · answer #9 · answered by Miss Delanne 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
you wouldn't understand
it's an Indoctrined thing.
2007-12-20 21:55:24 · answer #10 · answered by eelai000 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋