How old you think the earth is? the solar system? the galaxy? the universe?
cite your sources
2007-12-24 15:20:31 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
scrappin, you said 2-3000 years old? do you even read your own bible???
lol, stupidity
2007-12-24 15:25:59 · update #1
wow, I'm getting some educated answers, but some of the others...well....the ones with the number "6" in them?.....
2007-12-24 15:39:02 · update #2
The Universe is about 13-14 billion years old. That is dated by running the current expansion backwards.
The galaxies all formed about a billion years later. Now to say how old the Milky Way is would involve you defining exactly what you mean because they go through collisions all the time. So it was considerably smaller at one time.
The Earth, Sun and Solar system are all about 4.5 billion years old. This is dated by several radiometric methods, the first of which was U-Pb.
2007-12-24 15:28:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
The universe is usually accepted as being 13 - 14 billion years old, based on the heat given off by the oldest known stars, white dwarves.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1950403.stm
Our solar system is believed to be formed around 4.6 billion years ago, around the same time that the Earth and Sun formed as well. According to the nebular theory, a giant cloud of molecular gas several light years across was attracted together by gravity, to form the Sun, and other planets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_system#Formation
2007-12-24 23:36:35 · answer #2 · answered by Alex H 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Universe is 13-14 billion
Earth is 4.5 billion
Solar system is 5 billion
Galaxy 10-11 billion
What else do you want to know?
2007-12-24 23:26:09 · answer #3 · answered by Stainless Steel Rat 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Who cares, no matter what the truth is, 5 or 10 billion years old, the religious types and their bible will say its 6000 years old, but that just makes no sense to me. I guess this god character is an effin great magician or something.
2007-12-24 23:37:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Earth is about 4.5 billion years old.
The Universe is 13-14 billion years old.
Source - Google those questions for hundreds of references.
2007-12-24 23:28:17 · answer #5 · answered by Alan 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The universe is 2 days younger than the earth.
Bible.
2007-12-24 23:35:07 · answer #6 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
6000 years since the garden of eden
how long were adam and eve in the garden? unknown....
6 days to create the earth and the "heavens" 1 day of rest
what was BEFORE this time is infiinty...no beginning no end
what God was doing then we don't know...nor does it matter
in the bigger picture...
2007-12-24 23:29:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Universe: 15 billion years
Solar system: about 5 billion years
Earth: about 4.6 billion years.
2007-12-24 23:24:51 · answer #8 · answered by Cameron C. 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
I think they surmised 13 billion years or so.
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/age.html
Image of the age of the universe
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/ContentMedia/990053_2b.jpg
This does not shake my belief in the Bible. I simply question the interpretation some have of the Bible.
2007-12-24 23:24:10 · answer #9 · answered by Chi Guy 5 · 6⤊ 3⤋
the bible indicates it is millions of years old
2007-12-25 01:13:48 · answer #10 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋