The Planet Earth is roughly 4.55 billion years old - fact.\n\nMy question is: if God has existed forever and ever, what was he doing for the infinite number of years beforehand? \n\nWas he creating planets and life in other solar systems?  After all, from the billions and trillions of planets out there, with their own suns and moons, it's impossible for Earth to be the only one with life.\n\nI'm just curious on everyone's thoughts... or does the bible say what God did to pass the boredom for the billions of years preceding Earth's creation.
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This is a great question. I can't wait to see the bizarre answers the Bible thumpers will give.  Those people crack me up. Notice that not one of them will give an answer remotely making any sense.
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Well.. \nI'm more scientific than religious in this matter. \nThe reason Earth has life is because of the certain climate, temperature, etc. which is perfect for life. \nHowever, there are always news stories about "possible life on mars" and as such. And I believe that for life to form, there needs to be a certain set conditions which allow life to be formed and which support and maintain it. \n\nTherefore,  most definitely there could have been life in other planets, maybe some organisms or something else which is suited to that planet's climate, temp. and etc. It could be that we either can not detect that life on the other planets or the planet is undergoing some sort of climatic change which does not support life due to variant pressures. \n\nDid god stop at Earth-- well, that is a question which is a matter of belief- if we consider god as a positive force which stimulates life- then no, god wouldn't have stopped only on Earth. \n\nSome research even claims that there are other solar systems with other stars (like our Sun) in which a planet is very like Earth- almost same which supports life. \n\nSo, whether life is or not- is a personal decision. I think there is- but as you say, there is no real solid evidence supporting or contradicting existence of life in other planets
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There are those who reason that, because of the very nature of the physical universe, the time must come when the sun will no longer shine and the earth will no longer sustain life. But are they correct? What does the Creator say—the One who brought into existence energy and matter, the One who originated the laws on which our existence depends?\nSolomon penned these words: “A generation is going, and a generation is coming; but the earth is standing even to time indefinite.” But for how long? According to the literal rendering of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, it will be “to time indefinite.” What does that mean?\nAs to what the expression means in connection with the earth, we are not left in doubt. At Psalm 104:5 we are told: “He has founded the earth upon its established places; it will not be made to totter to time indefinite, or forever.\nThus it is regarding the planet Earth on which we live that Jesus Christ taught his followers to pray to God: “Let your kingdom come. Let your will take place, as in heaven, also upon earth.”—Matthew 6:9, 10.\n\nJehovah’s will is not for the earth to be inhabited by people who have no regard for its Owner and little love for one another. Long ago he promised: “Evildoers themselves will be cut off, but those hoping in Jehovah are the ones that will possess the earth. The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it.” (Psalm 37:9, 29) “The inhabited earth to come,” of which the Bible speaks, will be populated by people who fear God and sincerely love their fellowmen. (Hebrews 2:5; compare Luke 10:25-28.) So great will be the changes that take place under God’s heavenly Kingdom that the Bible speaks of “a new earth”—not a different globe, but a new human society that will live amid the paradisaic conditions that mankind’s Creator purposed from the time he began his earthly creation.—Revelation 21:1-5; Genesis 2:7-9, 15.\n\nThe establishing of that “new earth” will, of necessity, be preceded by great destruction—one surpassing anything that mankind has yet experienced. For the good of the earth itself and all who are truly grateful to its Creator, he will “bring to ruin those ruining the earth.” (Revelation 11:17, 18) \n Peter writes that God brought the Deluge “upon a world of ungodly people,” while preserving Noah and his family; in this way “the world of that time suffered destruction when it was deluged with water.” (2Pe 2:5; 3:6) It may again be noted that the reference here is not to the destruction of the planet or of the celestial bodies of the universe, but it is restricted to the human sphere, in this case the unrighteous human society. It was that “world” that Noah condemned by his faithful course.
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How about the fact that the entire scientific community accepts the age of the earth to be 4.6 billion years old?\n\nI have no idea what sources you're reading from or even if you just made all that up, but science is in no way "proving" the Bible. If anything, it's proving that the Biblical creation story is even LESS likely to actually have happened than we originally thought.\n\nAdam & Eve? Mainstream scientists laugh at that, man.
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6 Billion years old. The Bible says that to God a day is a thousand years and a thousand years is a day, which basically means that God does not follow our time table, so the 7 days that it took God to create the Heavens and the Earth could have been millions of years.
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There is no mention of any other world, human or extra-terrestrial, in the bible.\nSo, if there is other life, God didn't inform us about it.  In other words, no one knows.\nI happen to believe that we're all there is.  But, I guess I'll find out for sure when I die.\n\n\n***update,\nCan you find that scripture?  I'd be interested in seeing it.\n\n\n***update**\nUnfortunately my concordance is packed away (I just moved) and I can't look the word up.  I'd be willing to bet that it's talking about the other planets.  It still doesn't specify that there is alien life or other people on other planets.\nIt could be that there is...I don't know and no one does for sure.  I just don't think so.\nNotice that the verse talks about things that are seen are not made from things that do appear.  In other words, what we see was not made from what exists naturally.  VERY interesting because it is a direct verse that says evolution is false.  It is talking about looking at the creation and realizing that God had to create it because it would be absurd to think this all created itself.\n\nGoing back to things that are seen.  I would say that this verse is only talking about the planets in our solar system.  We see those and they are other worlds.  However, there's no life on any of them.  Only earth can sustain life.
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i think you have answered your question pretty well. i think we will be dead by the time this is possible, but i do think we can find/inhabit a different planet in about???????????years. and as far as the bible goes, fiction novel. its hard for me to believe that so many peoples lives revolve around this book. god and santa are laughing it up with the tooth fairy and the easter bunny, while millions of weird-o's stand sit kneel, stand sit kneel....crazy
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From the beginning it was God’s purpose for a perfect human family to dwell on earth forever in a paradise. And it is still his purpose! Without fail, that purpose will be fulfilled. \nThe Bible shows that God prepared the earth especially with humans in mind. Isaiah 45:18 says regarding the earth that God “did not create it simply for nothing [but] formed it even to be inhabited.”  And he provided the earth with everything that people would need, not just to exist, but to enjoy life to the full.—Genesis, chapters 1 and 2. (Genesis 1:26) Humans were to have oversight of “all the earth” and its animal creation.\nMoreover, God gave a wonderful mandate to the first pair while they were in Eden: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth.” (Genesis 1:28) \nIt is evident that humans were to use the subdued earth for their benefit. But this was to be done in a responsible way. Humans were to be respectful stewards of the earth, not the despoilers of it. The destruction of the earth that we witness today is against God’s will, and those who share in it are going contrary to the purpose of life on earth. They will have to pay the penalty for that, for the Bible says that God will “bring to ruin those ruining the earth.”—Revelation 11:18.\n\nFrom the early Bible record, we learn that it was not God’s purpose for people to suffer or to die. Our first parents, Adam and Eve, died only because they disobeyed God. (Genesis, chapters 2 & 3) When they disobeyed, they were no longer doing God’s will. They pulled out from under God’s care. In effect, they disconnected themselves from God, “the source of life.”—Psalm 36:9.\n\nGod’s Purpose Soon to Be Realized:  \nAlthough God has permitted imperfection and suffering for a long time from the human viewpoint, he will not allow bad conditions to go on indefinitely. The Bible tells us that God has a specific time period for allowing these things to happen.\n\nGod’s Judgments:  \nNote a few of the many Bible prophecies that state what God’s intervention, that is, the results of his judgments, will soon mean for the human family:\n\n“The upright are the ones that will reside in the earth, and the blameless are the ones that will be left over in it. As regards the wicked, they will be cut off from the very earth; and as for the treacherous, they will be torn away from it.”—Proverbs 2:21, 22. See Also: Psalm 37:9-11; \nPsalm 37:34, 37, 38. & Proverbs 3:1, 2, 5, 6.\n\nGod’s Rule From Heaven:  \nGod will accomplish this cleansing of the earth by means of the best government that mankind could ever have. It is a government that reflects heavenly wisdom because it rules from heaven under God’s direction. And that heavenly Kingdom will remove all forms of human rule from earth. Humans will never again have the option of trying to rule independent of God. \n\nIn this regard the prophecy at Daniel 2:44 states: “In the days of those kings [present-day governments] the God of heaven will set up a kingdom [in heaven] that will never be brought to ruin. And the kingdom itself will not be passed on to any other people [humans will never again be permitted to rule independent of God]. It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms [now existing], and it itself will stand to times indefinite.”- See also Revelation 19:11-21; 20:4-6.\nThus, mankind will never again have corrupt forms of rule, for after God brings this system to its end, human rule independent of him will never exist again. That is why Jesus could teach his disciples to pray to God: “Let your kingdom come. Let your will take place, as in heaven, also upon earth.”—Matthew 6:10.\n\nWhat will life be like when God removes wickedness and suffering from the earth and ushers in his new world under the loving control of his heavenly Kingdom? God promises to ‘open his hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.’—Psalm 145:16.\nWhat are your legitimate desires? Are they not f
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I believe in the Bible.\nThe Bible says that the world was created in six literal 24 hour days, is around 6000 years old, that man and dinosaurs lived together (being created in the same week), and that there was a flood that totally covered the entire planet, killing off the vast majority of human, plant and animal life on the planet.\nThe amount of scintific evidence that supports this theory is simply staggering, but rarely given a chance to be heard or seen due to the wide-spread acceptance of the evolution theory.\n\nDid you know that the earth's rotation is slowing down? So if you back up in time a few million years, you have to speed the earth's rotation up proportionatly - you can't even go back a few million before the earths rotation becomes so fast that life on this planet is not possible anymore. - Much less 4.6 billion years.\n\nThe orbit of the moon is growing a little bit farther away from the earth every year, so if you back that one up a few million years, the moon would have been so close to the earth that the tide would have come so high it would wipe out all life on the  planet twice a day. - 4.6 billion years ago, it would have to have been touching the earth,  not oribiting the earth.\n\nI could go on for many pages like this, but follow the link below to find out more about that the Bible says about creation, and what scientific examination of these claims have shown.
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In the first place, god did not create the world in 7 days -- or any other period of time.  The universe is 13.7 billion years old; the earth is about 4.5 billion years old.
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This is a great question!\n\nThere are two answers to this question...\n\nThe first answer is "yes".  A person can know the precise\nage of this world or planet.\nThe second answer is "definitely not".  There's no way to know the precise age of this world or planet.\n\nHere's what I mean...\nSome people believe in God and the Bible.  According to the \nBible, the planet is about 6000 years old.  The way Bible believers come up with that number is tracing all the generations from the time of Adam and Eve to Jesus.  That was approximately four thousand years.  From Jesus to now is 2006 years.  So for those who believe the Bible, the earth is approximately 6006 years old.\n\nOf course there are those who don't believe in God or trust the Bible.  Among that group there is a large variation between scholars about how old the earth's age.  It varies from a few million to approximately 40 Billion. \n\nSo there you have it: For Bible believing people the answer is "yes" it's possible to know the precise age of the earth.  For others, the answer is "no".\n\nIn order for you as an individual to know for sure how old the earth is, all you have to do is decide if you are a Bible believer or not.  Within your decision is your answer.\n\nEnjoy a wonderful day!\n\nB. Tipton
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Technically speaking, should 'God' exist, which logically is unlikely, and this deity created the planet, surely it's within its rights to destroy whatever it has created.\n\nAccording to popular Western religion, God created the earth in a similar way to, say, Leonardo da Vinci creating one of his paintings. It's known that da Vinci painted over a number of his works to create the more famous pieces we see today and nobody complains about that. If we are in fact the creations of some 'higher being' then God is perfectly within its rights to dispose of us, the dinosaurs and whatever else it may choose to create. However, since there is no evidence for or against the deity theory, the conundrum is largely a hypothetical and ultimately useless one.\n\nNevertheless, since we regard ourselves as sentient beings and the destruction of life is regarded as genocide, this would seem to indicate that God is indeed guilty. But only from our point of view.\n\nReally am gonna have to stop expressing my opinions on the internet!
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No one has yet shown that there is any life beyond that on Earth. \n\nAs far as life in general is concerned I am reasonably sure that there is life on other worlds and there are currently a couple of space missions in development that may find earth-like planets and even find signs of life on those planets in the next few decades.\n\nWhether there is intelligent life out there is more debatable.\n\nConsider that in 4.5 Billion years the Earth has only produced one technological intelligent species. This species has only really been able to consider possibly contacting or being contacted by intelligent beings from another world for the past 50 years. In that time we have just about managed to avoid nuclear annihilation, so far, and are currently well on the way to destroying the Earths eco-system.\n\nIf intelligent life is anything like Homo Sapiens then it will probably not last more than a few hundred years at a level where it is technically able to contact others.\n\nGiven that, it is extremely unlikely that two intelligent species will evolve close enough together to contact each other in the short time frame that they are able to do so.\n\nSo while there may be intelligent life elsewher in the universe I doubt we will ever find it.
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Stop acting crazy, that's #1.  Second, before G-d created the universe, there obviously wasn't time.  And there weren't any beings to know what time was.  so, as hard as it may seem to be, G-d existed forever...reeeeeally weird to think about it, but like i said, there was no time, so it's quite possible.
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life on other planet would not mean they should be all humans. don't forget on our little planet there are 1000s of different living creatures, they are not all human. therefor there might be life on other planets in different shapes and different creatures, that would not mean there was some other God who created them.\nThe Bible says god created the heavens and earth. it doesn't say if God created or didn't create any creature elsewhere.\nthe bible was sent to us earthly human to learn about God and how to worship Him. There was no point to intriduce other worlds to the ancient humans because of their lack of understanding.\nour understanding of how to interpret the bible changes through time and history.\nThe early church thought of science as anti-religion. and they thought the earth is the center of the universe, even though the bible doesn't say that, it was implied that God will create the earth and give it so much attention only to make it the center of everything. But as we learn more things about the universe we read the bible and see there is nothing in the bible that contradict it. so if one day we discovered life some other place, there is nothing in the bible that says that should or could not happen. it is only our understanding now that assumes God created only living creatues on earth..
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If Adam & Eve had not disobeyed Jehovah, they would be living somewhere on the Earth today in a Garden of Eden, a Paradise.\n\nThere are those who reason that, because of the very nature of the physical universe, the time must come when the sun will no longer shine and the earth will no longer sustain life. But are they correct? What does the Creator say—the One who brought into existence energy and matter, the One who originated the laws on which our existence depends?\nSolomon penned these words: “A generation is going, and a generation is coming; but the earth is standing even to time indefinite.” But for how long? According to the literal rendering of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, it will be “to time indefinite.” What does that mean?\nAs to what the expression means in connection with the earth, we are not left in doubt. At Psalm 104:5 we are told: “He has founded the earth upon its established places; it will not be made to totter to time indefinite, or forever.\nThus it is regarding the planet Earth on which we live that Jesus Christ taught his followers to pray to God: “Let your kingdom come. Let your will take place, as in heaven, also upon earth.”—Matthew 6:9, 10.\nJehovah’s will is not for the earth to be inhabited by people who have no regard for its Owner and little love for one another. Long ago he promised: “Evildoers themselves will be cut off, but those hoping in Jehovah are the ones that will possess the earth. The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it.” (Psalm 37:9, 29) “The inhabited earth to come,” of which the Bible speaks, will be populated by people who fear God and sincerely love their fellowmen. (Hebrews 2:5; compare Luke 10:25-28.) So great will be the changes that take place under God’s heavenly Kingdom that the Bible speaks of “a new earth”—not a different globe, but a new human society that will live amid the paradisaic conditions that mankind’s Creator purposed from the time he began his earthly creation.—Revelation 21:1-5; Genesis 2:7-9, 15.\nThe establishing of that “new earth” will, of necessity, be preceded by great destruction—one surpassing anything that mankind has yet experienced. For the good of the earth itself and all who are truly grateful to its Creator, he will “bring to ruin those ruining the earth.” (Revelation 11:17, 18) God’s time for doing this is very near! When it is completed, will you be found among the survivors?\n\n“Inherit the earth”—what an exciting prospect! But can we be sure that this is not just another crafty scheme designed to deprive people of something? Yes, we can. Since the earth is part of Jehovah’s marvelous creation, he as the Maker and Owner has the legal right to bequeath it to whomever he chooses. Through King David, Jehovah made this prophetic promise to His beloved Son, Jesus Christ: “Ask of me, that I may give nations as your inheritance and the ends of the earth as your own possession.” (Psalm 2:8) For this reason, the apostle Paul described Jesus as the one “whom [God] appointed heir of all things.” (Hebrews 1:2) We can, therefore, have full confidence that when Jesus said that the meek “shall inherit the earth,” he did so in good faith, and he has the proper authority to fulfill his promise.—Matthew 28:18.\n2 Peter 3:6: \nPeter writes that God brought the Deluge “upon a world of ungodly people,” while preserving Noah and his family; in this way “the world of that time suffered destruction when it was deluged with water.” (2Pe 2:5; 3:6) It may again be noted that the reference here is not to the destruction of the planet or of the celestial bodies of the universe, but it is restricted to the human sphere, in this case the unrighteous human society. It was that “world” that Noah condemned by his faithful course.—Heb 11:7.
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Here's my take.. and yes I am a Christian.\n\nThis universe we live in a massive place and it has been around for billions of years.  I think it would be pretty egotistical and extremely closed minded of us to think that we are the only beings in this whole universe.  When we look at it from this context, there is a very high probility that there other inteligent life forms out there.  Why we haven't met them yet is a matter of debate.  If we are to assume that there are such things as UFO, then we must ask the question, why would they 'discover us' and never attempt contact?  It really don't make any since for them to 'buzz' our planet and never say 'Hi'.\n\nIf one believes that a supreme being (God) created this universe then one has to believe he know's about all the life that is out there.  Therefore, if one believes that God created all life (since he created the universe) then it would fall to reason that he would make his presence known to all inteligent life.  Why would he just tell us?\n\nSo, here's where it get's tricky.  In order for any being to visit our planet they would have figure out how to defeat the laws of physics as it relates to speed and time because there are no life sustainable planets with in 100 light years from here!  Now.. it could be.. that we were visited thousands of years ago from aliens that spent 1,000 years getting here and they are just now getting back home.  I think that's highly unlikely.\n\nSo.. if we consolidate all of these thoughts, we can come to a single, simple conclusion.  IF we get a visit by aliens from another planet, should we be surprised when they tell us stories of their religious diety that exactly mirrors ours?\n\nJust some thoughts to get your creative juices flowing!\n\nGood luck!