How can some people still claim the earth and heavens are 6000 years old when....?
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Gullible idiots are not going to allow observable scientific fact to stand in the way of a good myth.
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It's all guess work.\n\nTime did not exist until flesh man was created.\n\nConsider some scientific estimates or guesses. Not all scientists are going to agree. The Universe or heavens 20 billion years old. The Earth 4.6 billion years old. The Moon 200 to 300 million years younger than the Earth. Dinosaur extinction 65 million years ago. The Ice Age 2.5 million years ago. Oldest evidence of flesh man 7000 to 14000 years old.
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There are none! Cause the world hasnt even been here that long! This world has only been here lyk ovr 2000 years! Im assuming u eithr believe n evolution or ur jst stupid lol! Cuz seriously y would u think the earth has been here that long! Im not a big god person but sitll god created the world n if it was here 4 more then 180 million years i think he would tell us that! Jst trust me ppl who think our world is that old r jst crazy! Cuz it aint true! Cuz if it was y is our year 2006? Y wouldnt it b 180,000,000!!! Honestly if the world was here that long the year would b that high! N if u dnt believe me then ur crazy cuz ppl who think the earth is that old r jst crazy!
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The official estimate now is 13.7 plus or minus 0.2 billion years old.\n\nBut this continues to be a tricky number to pin down. It depends primarily on the rate of expansion of the universe. Recently it has been found that the rate of expansion is increasing (that is the universe is expanding more today than it it did a billion years ago, and will be expanding faster a billion years into the future).\n\nHaving said that this continuing field of study in cosmology is no consolation for Young Earth Creationists. I mention that because some have a habit of jumping on any disagreement in science as a way to promote their own. The universe is clearly between 10 and 20 or 25 billion years old. Not 6,000 years old.
937907
Approximately 5,000,000,000 years
177172
People who live in heavens do so because they have wealth that they have either inherited or earned or swindled. There are two types of people in this materialistic world - the 'haves' and the 'have nots'.
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5 billion years or so.\n\nhttp://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/sun/sundeath.shtml
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50 million years ago, a UFO landed on the earth...\n\nJust kidding.
722976
Jim, Jim Jim. Cant you see, just like the second person posted, they cant understand in evolution so it has been written in the Bible so they can understand. Put it like this, everyone can understand 7 days, but how many people can actually understand 4.6 billion years or a million years. Its just too big a number for them to comprehend, but everyone can understand 7 days! They see things as they are now, not how they could have been as they cant think past 2000years ago.
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I like your spirit. Keep it up!!\n\nAfter reading a few of the answers I can't help but break out in laughter. Is this 2006? or is it before Renaissance?\nMight I mention a few things: radio carbon dating, cosmic background radiation, speed of light, distance of some galaxies from us, the time to form heavy elements from hydrogen, half life of uranium...\nI think any one of these things will prove the age of the earth. Incidentally, the Hindu scriptures, Vedas are about 6000 years old. The last ice age ended 13000 years ago...\n\nI can't believe these same people boast about space travel. LMFAO.\n\nIncidentally for the person who said something about matter and energy. No matter and energy can't be created or destroyed. Matter and energy are actually the same thing in different forms. One is a more stable form, the other is a transient form.\n\nAnd the person who said the Bible is the truth. Well the bible didn't arrive by fax from heaven. It was written by men. The laws of physics, on the other hand, was written by God. Scientists merely discover them.
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Fools of faith.  I always enjoy asking devout Christians if they believe in dinosaurs.  When they say yes I ask them how long ago they lived.  When they say millions of years ago I ask them how that could be when the Bible says the Earth is only 6000 years old!  It's funny watching them try to squirm their way outta that one.
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About 4600 million years.
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First consider some scientific estimates or guesses. Not all scientists are going to agree. The Universe or heavens 20 billion years old. The Earth 4.6 billion years old. The Moon 200 to 300 million years younger than the Earth. Dinosaur extinction 65 million years ago. The Ice Age 2.5 million years ago. Oldest evidence of flesh man 7000 to 14000 years old.\n\nThere are 3 earth ages (II Pet.3:5-7), same earth but different ages. We are now in the 2nd earth age. Between Gen.1:1 and Gen.1:2 is a vast amount of time, if time existed. Between these 2 verses is Satan’s rebellion (Rev.12:3-4) and “his tail” drew 1/3 of God’s children. Between these 2 verses also belongs all fossils and remains, such as Dinosaurs.\n\nIn Gen.1:2 we have the of the end of the 1st earth age and the beginning of the 2nd. For clarity Gen.1:2 needs to be divided (see below).\n\n(A) Gen.1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. \n\n(B) Gen.1:2 And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.\n\nIn (A) Gen.1:2 the first occurrence of the word “was” has been corrupted and is “became”. It reads “And the earth became without form, and void”. The end of the 1st earth age.\n\nIn (B) Gen.1:2 we have the beginning of 2nd earth age, the one we live in now. Man did not exist in flesh till this earth age.\n\nBetween (A & B) Gen.1:2 is also a vast amount of time, if time existed. Between (A & B) Gen.1:2  is; a global flood (not Noah’s which was a local flood), the destruction of Atlantis, the breakup of Gondwana Land, and the Ice Age.\n\nTime means nothing to our Father. He is very patient and loves His children. Instead of destroying Satan and 1/3 of His children, He destroyed that first earth age. Now in this 2nd earth age we all are born innocent in the flesh. Father came in the flesh Himself, Jesus Christ, and paid the price for all. Father defeated Satin, that is death, legally. So now His children have a decision, to choose life or to choose death. It’s your decision. Choose life!!
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No problem.  Only how can I consider the world to be as old as "science" dates it when I don't know how old "science" dates it today?  Every couple of years or so I read an article in a newspaper or a magazine telling me that "science" has just discovered that it was all wrong: the earth is actually so many hundred million years older (or younger) than they thought it was.  Personally, I can't help thinking there is a farcical aspect to that.  Especially when every time science changes its mind, nobody is allowed to question "science", or they will be branded as ignoramus.\nEDIT:\nDon't worry, if Rose Petal had reported you, your question would have been taken off.  She is just trying to get your goat.
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The sun is only about 4.5 billion years old.  The cloud of gas and dust that it formed out of was probably huge, though.
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#        The earth is 6,000 years old position. The date 4004 B.C. is found in the marginal notes (Genesis one) of many King James Versions. This date was first placed in the King James Version by James Ussher in 1701. He arrived at this date by adding the lengths of the lives of the patriarchs as given in Genesis 5 and 11. In reality, this dating method is not infallible for a number of possible reasons. As far as the Bible is concerned, we can not date the earth with accuracy. It must be remembered that Genesis presents the earth as being created mature or aged (Gen. 1: 20 ff.).  \n\n#     The earth is 4.7 billions years old view. Scientists have employed a number of methods in trying to arrive at the age of the earth. The rate of erosion, rate of salt accumulation in the ocean, and the rate of decay of certain elements such as uranium, thorium, potassium, and rubidium. All of these methods including the "ore method," "meteorite method," and the dating of fossil remains are unreliable and contain many attendant variables.\n\n#     There are a growing number of scientists who are concluding the earth is actually relatively young. They have studied population growth, the amount of meteoric dust on the earth's surface, the quantity of nickel in the oceans, and carbon-14 build up. Many of these scientists believe the earth is more in the range of 7, 000 years old. "Beloved, one thing we do know is life begets life and creation implies a Creator: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (Gen. 1: 1). In all honesty, there are matters scientists and theologians do not definitively know as to the age of the earth. True science and the Bible, though, do not conflict.
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I don't put my faith in scientists. The same scientists say that the Earth is billions of years old and then they change the dates over and over. The truth is that no one really knows, how could they? Scientists said that certain fish died off millions of years ago, but they pull up fish off the coast of Madagascar that should have been extinct. I don't trust scientists because they claim to have facts when in reality they are theories.