You know, you really should go clarify those Wikipedia articles, as a person can get the impression that Wikipedia says the Sun is 30 million years
older than the Earth, instead of it saying about 50 million as you have put it.
Men and women are raised as sacrifices to please gods
older than the Earth itself.
According to some astronomers, worlds that are larger, warmer, and
older than Earth, orbiting dwarf stars, are probably the most likely candidates for hosting complex life.
This sets the most likely age of the planets at 11.5 billion years, which is 2.5 times
older than Earth and 2 billion years younger than the universe itself (around 13.7 billion years).
Given that civilisations in globular clusters could be far
older than the Earth, they could very well have colonised their entire cluster.
Some of this stray dust is likely
older than Earth.
This also suggests that, assuming evolution takes place at a similar rate to Earth's, you want to search for complex life on planets that are about five and a half billion years old, a billion years
older than Earth.
Not exact matches
Less
than 0.1 % of the 6 billion people on
earth live past 110 years
old.
How does something dated to be no younger
than 1.9 million years prove that the
earth is only 6,000 years
old?
Still, it is correct to say the
earth is more
than 14 million years
old.
God created Adam as a mature man, he did the same with the
earth.how
old is a mature
earth?billions or trillions of years.a science maxim, things go from order to disorder.yet the complexities of man (DNA) and the
earth (water) became complex over time.more
than doubtful.
It's missing the point on a scale that is arguably worse
than someone reading the Book of Genesis and concluding that the
earth is less
than 10,000 years
old...
I brought up evolution because it's one of many pieces of evidence that makes it clear the
earth is much
older than thousands of years.
The evidence we have that the
earth is millions of years
old is way closer to what anyone could consider «proof»
than evidence to suggest Jesus existed.
There are living things on the
earth that are
older than that.
the
earth is more
than 6000 years
old.
Some think that the bible tells them that the
earth has to be less
than 10,000 years
old rather
than the better explanation, that writing did not come into being until close to 6,000 years ago and our oral collective memory couldnt reach too much further back SO it makes sense that the
old testament would appear to only reach back 10,000 years.
Your 4 year
old son can not prove anything, other
than an apple can fall to
Earth... that is a fact.
Also Stephen, you disregard the surveys that consistently say that over 45 % of Americans believe the
earth is less
than 10k years
old and the bible is 100 % literal and accurate including the story of a talking snake and Noah's Ark..
People are free to believe whatever they want but the «truth» is that the
Earth is more
than 6000 years
old.
For believing that the
earth is more
than 6,000 years
old, I've been called an idolatrous shrew who hates the Bible and has no business calling herself a Christian.
I'm as keen as anyone for a discussion about
old earth / young
earth (i'm a young earther for the record — at least I think I am But rather
than all this constant intellectual bollix, let's sort out some of these basic issues first.
and so this New Covenant birth, on one of grace, mercy and love, and it is better
than the
old testament in this way, because like the rainbow was a sign that God would never flood the
earth again wiping us out, so too Christ lifts the O.T. curse that was a result of sin.
Having examined evidence such as Big Bang cosmology (yup, I'm what you'd call an «
old earth» creationist), the Cambrian explosion in the fossil record, the problems of abiogenesis, and textual criticism of the Bible, I've found that the Bible describes historical events and other aspects of reality much more plausibly
than any other faith system.
And some of us have finally had to concede that the
earth is
older than 6000 years.
The
Earth being younger
than the radiometric age of 4.5 billion years
old is based on the Young
Earth Creationism religious belief.
The formation of any major mountain range — the Himalayas, the Alps, the Andes, the Rockies, with sedimentary fossils at high alt!tude should be abundant evidence that the
earth is much much
older than 10,000 years.
This is a society in which money and power are more important
than people, health is a negotiable commodity,
old - age a curse, worker slavery a new form of more profitable production, the poor are disposable, and the
earth's destruction an increasing reality.
It has also been proven that the
Earth is much, much, much
older than 10,000 years.
I have no issue with believing God created life and then there was evolution, which was guided by God if you are religious, I just have huge issue with ignoring scientific fact that there is this thing called evolution and that the
earth is more
than 10,000 years
old.
You also noticed that 40 % of those who believed in witches thought the
Earth was designed to be flat and was less
than 10,000 years
old, and wanted to teach that in schools as «Intelligent Design» and that it was ALWAYS those who believed in witches who wanted to deny people the right to marry people of the same star sign.
(Oh, by the way, not only is the
Earth older than 6,000 years, so is human civilization.
More
than half of Americans think the
earth and human descendants are well over 10,000 years
old.
The article is talking about the 46 % who believe that the
earth is not 4.5 B years
old but less
than 10,000 years
old.
Precious Metals the Result of Meteorite Bombardment, Rock Analysis Finds Sep. 9, 2011 — Ultra high precision analyses of some of the
oldest rock samples on
Earth by researchers at the University of Bristol provides clear evidence that the planet's accessible reserves of precious metals are the result of a bombardment of meteorites more
than 200 million years after
Earth was formed.
1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references
Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the
Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more
than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references
Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references
Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to
earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)
Yet 46 % of Americans still think the
earth is less
than 10,000 years
old, because they think «bible tells them so» even though merely reinterpreting a chapter or two of the bible differently permits the two beliefs to co-exist.
We have scientific proof that
earth is much, much
older than 6 - 10,000 years.
Other living organisms indicating the
Earth is far more
than a few thousands of years
old include Posidonia oceanica, a species of seagrass found in the Mediterranean Sea.
read up on quantum mechanics and tell me that sounds more realistic then the notion of a being of superior knowledge manipulating the elements of
earth to create sentient man... its a logical fallacy... if we can do what we can do in a universe four billion years
old, simple statistics demands
than someone else would have done it beforehand, especially if we had «evlved» so drastically in a cosmic blink of an eye, as the prophet richard dawkins likes to put it.
Precious metals the result of meteorite bombardment, rock analysis finds Date: September 9, 2011 Source: University of Bristol Summary: Ultra high precision analyses of some of the
oldest rock samples on
Earth provides clear evidence that the planet's accessible reserves of precious metals are the result of a bombardment of meteorites more
than 200 million years after
Earth was formed.
If you want to believe that the
earth as we know it is
older than 6,000 years you have to resort to all sorts of dishonest idea in order to rationalize how all this «happened» and still somehow matches with what actually happened.
The sumerians were using a primitive form of writing 10,000 years ago, which is several thousand years
older than many who follow the BS of the bible say the
earths age is.
Anyone that tells you that «science» says the
Earth is 6 billion years
old has forgotten to tell you
than there are many credible scientists who disagree and there are many discrepancies in the dating methods.
Atheists can prove that science exists, that the
earth is more
than 6000 years
old, that their is NO WAY to build the size ark that Noah built and do what is claimed in the bible, again when making extraordinary claims, we need evidence and we know that snakes do not talk, that the laws of physics can not be suspended and that nearly EVERY claim in the bible is false.
@Hez - according to a recent Gallup poll, 42 % of Americans do indeed believe the young
earth theory, and do not accept either evolution or that the
earth is
older than 10,000 years.
I really am shocked how religious this country is... it amazes me that one of the top GDPs in the world has 42 % of its population think the
earth is less
than 10,000 years
old.
We have creationists who can't even agree on which version of their myths to try to claim as true, some sure that the
earth is
old and some ridiculous enough to claim that it's less
than 10,000 years
old.
The last time I tried I was told that dinosaur bones were planted all over the world by the devil to make us believe the
earth is
older than the 4000 or so years that the zealots calculate it to be.
First, our brother Michael Gungor, one of the most thoughtful musical artists of our time, has been publicly vilified across Christian media — both traditional, online, and social — for openly discussing his belief in an
old earth rather
than a young
earth.