3) You need to get over yourself and realize that the people who estimate
the age of the earth do so with a fuller understanding of Einstein's relativity than you'll ever have.
Not exact matches
i also feel Ham doesn't realize it but is only making an argument that Adam appeared 6000 years ago and not the «
age of the
earth.»
Example being, the
age of Earth... what
do we
do when our «god - given» brains are driven crazy by what the Bible says, and what we see as reality?
Do you want to go back to the dark
ages when humans believed that the
earth was the center
of everything because the bible mentions that god stopped the day by stopping the sun in the sky?
You
do know hawaiiiguest that the Bible tells us
of 3
earth ages.
It has to
do with the
age of the
earth.
He was asked a question about the
age of the
earth which he
did not answer, instead retreated to talking points to pander to people like you.
Here I am, an old guy, living on my pension, social security, and 401 (k) that I've set aside for my old
age, and I'm asking myself how to explain all that while claiming to be a follower
of Jesus who said, «Lay not up for yourself treasures on
earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, where thieves break through and steal» (Matthew 6:19 KJV), I
did exactly what Jesus told me not to
do.
On the
age of the
earth, the Bible
does not speak or hint.
I really don't want to get into the whole
age of the
earth / evolution debate today... there isn't enough time.
What set this in motion is uncertain, but we think it has something to
do with major climatic shifts that were happening around that time — a sudden cooling in the
Earth's climate driven by the onset
of one
of the worst parts
of the last Ice
Age.
We don't need a Church in which everyone agrees on the
age of the
earth.
Do we really know the exact
age of the
Earth?
Of course not — we do not know the «exact» age of the eart
Of course not — we
do not know the «exact»
age of the eart
of the
earth.
The Bible doesn't give the «exact»
age of the
earth either Hugh.
For example, how
do we see the creative and redemptive love
of God through the perspective
of the
age - long development
of the immense universe, only a speck
of which we inhabit, and
of the evolution
of sentient and rational life on this
earth through thousands and millions
of years?
years pass and in so many millions
of years pass the bible
does not say just how many years past but it was the first
earth age when Lucifer rebelled against God and took 1/3
of the children
of God with him.
And this is what he
does here, very well, proceeding by discrete steps: the observable plasticity
of plant and animal species, the verifiability
of macro-evolution, the geological record
of the
earth's
age, the fossil evidence (including the wealth
of fossil remains
of intermediate special forms), observable and experimental mutation, morphology, genetics, and so forth.
For century after century, spreading slowly to every continent and country and among every race on
earth, this action has been
done, in every conceivable human circumstance, for every conceivable human need from infancy and before it to extreme old
age and after it, from the pinnacles
of earthly greatness to the refuge
of fugitives in the caves and dens
of the
earth.
And I find this is true... at
age 70 stuff still comes up and I wonder what on
earth raised it, but I
do confront the issue and if necessary, seek counsel (which entails only lifting up the phone and talking to one
of a half dozen close qualified friends.
As the Good Book has warned, there will come an
age when people just will themselves choose confusion more than what is right and morally just to preserve their sinful ways instead
of seeking the One they need to perfect them as a human person with dignity as a divine image
of noble and holy existence, instead
do de - basing themselves out
of a healthy and happier existence even on
earth.
However, there is a scripture that says a very few non-believers that
DO NOT follow Jesus are allowed into eternity with Jesus because they listen to Jesus» wisdom that is built into all
of us (aka our conscious from the beginning with Him (1st
earth age... aka time frame).
However, all this, as we know, has had to be reconsidered by Christians, Mother Church included, once the geological and palaeontological sciences began to reveal the apparently immense
age of the
earth and the evidence that the biological species
did not all come into existence at once exactly as they are today but by some kind
of transformism.
Just because radiocarbon dating has flaws
does not mean the dozen other methods for dating objects are automatically bogus which is why the scientific community believes the 4.5 billion year
age of the
earth, it's because they
did not use just a single method
of testing to estimate that
age, they used several different methods which all confirmed the same approximate
age.
So how
does questioning the 6000 yrs (
age of the
earth theory) equal «challenging» creationism?
In the
earth's coming
age of firey inclemencies
did come to bear; the earthly atmosphere where then came all the seeds brought forth by God and His Sons and Daughters thru their infinitely finite physical beings
of ever so very small size.
In the
earth's coming
age of firey inclemencies tht
did rudimentally come to bear and bewail the earthly atmosphere where then came all the seeds brought forth by God and His Sons and Daughters thru their infinitely finite physical beings
of ever so very small size.
What on
earth do words in a book from the Bronze
Age have to
do with the equitable treatment
of all human beings?
My kid is at the
age where she's been asking all sorts
of tough questions — where
do people come from, how was the
Earth formed, what happens when we die etc..
My guess is he would know no more about that than he
does about the
age of the
earth.
While Genesis contains wonderful insights into the relationship between God and the creation, it simply
does not contain scientific ideas about the origin
of the universe, the
age of the
earth or the development
of life.
The kingdom
of God represented a new
age, the messianic
age when God's will would be
done on
earth as in heaven.
Again I state... we
do nt use theologians to determine the
age of the
earth, we use scientists... and until such time you can refute all the different methods used to determine
age then that carries far more weight than what a 2000 year old book says.
theologians have about as much value to add to determining the
age of the
Earth as they
do to determining the
age of the Universe.
Did they call Obama's church and ask them the
age of the
earth?
When GQ's Michal Hainey asked Rubio, in an interview released Monday, «How old
do you think the
Earth is,» the rising Republican star described the debate about the planet's
age as «one
of the great mysteries.»
People can choose to believe it, but that
does not make it science and anything from it can not be legitimately taught as alternative theories
of science, whether in astrophysics vs. the «big bang», biology vs. evolution or embryology, etc., or physics and geology in determining the
age of the
earth and universe.
I don't know... I'm going to guess that understanding the
age of the
earth is pretty important in knowing how to predict where to find oil.
But this was talking about the
age of the
earth however so not sure what the universe
age has to
do with anything.
It is true that science
does not know the exact
age of the
Earth or the Universe, but it is absolutely certain, beyond ANY shadow
of a doubt that it is NOT just 6 - 10000 years old!
There is even evidence that joseph smith thought the moon had people living on it — in 1892 a mormon article was written which says: «The Inhabitants
of the Moon,» recorded Huntington: «As far back as 1837, I know that he [Smith] said the moon was inhabited by men and women the same as this
earth, and that they live to a greater
age than we
do — that they live generally to near the
age of a 1000 years.
And don't try to tell me science has already proven the
age of the
earth.
i am not a Rubio fan, but i would have to agree, the
age of the
earth (nor us coming to know it) has anything to
do with the deficit we are in at this point in time!
How many
of you fools could quote the
age of the
Earth before reading this article or before
doing a search?
I don't have to reject computers to reject an absolute
age of the
earth - it is only those who really don't understand that time is meaningless as there is no absolute time.
When testing the
age of the
earth, how
do you explain that scientists were a couple million years off on 10 year old rock samples from mt. st. hellens?
Age of the earth is up for debate and the scriptures do not make claim on the age of the earth only people outside of
Age of the
earth is up for debate and the scriptures
do not make claim on the
age of the earth only people outside of
age of the
earth only people outside
of it.
A pure theocracy, such as the prophets had envisioned and foretold, a state
of affairs contemplated by Jesus himself and described in his prayer: «Thy Kingdom come, thy will be
done on
earth as it is in heaven» — this was to take the place
of «the present evil
age.»
Those who, as you say «put their faith in science» are
doing nothing
of the sort — there is no act
of faith involved — on the contrary the evidence presented (such as in the case
of the
age of the
Earth or the Universe) stands or falls strictly on its scientific merit: «Faith» is irrelevant.
Note also that the work translated as «day» can also be translated as «
age», and
does not always refer to a 24 hour period (one rotation
of the
earth on it's axis).