whos in on the conspiracy to make every fossil seem like its more than 6000 years old?
829922
No one said that it is a conspiracy.........\n\nHuman error is human error.
1148811
Man, read up on decomposition, then read up on the conditions needed for fossilization/petrifaction.\n\nIf you have some time left over, either make a study of grammar, or learn to read aloud what you write to see if it makes any kind of sense.\n\nHomo sapiens shows up in the fossil record one hundred thousand years ago, not millions of years, you're off by an order of magnitude.
1003424
yep....considering that way back in the day, things were documented like they are now...I'd say people are making things up as they go when it comes to certain things in history.
421417
IIRC, the current "best guess" of archaeologists and engineers is something like 20-30 years for the Great Pyramid.
429168
sell it on ebay if you find someone to purchase something like that with no certificate of authenticity from a geologist to support your assertions.
653069
The Earth is 4,570,000,000 years old, approximately; though many Creationists think it to be only 6000 "without proof otherwise" they are wrong: we have proven it using gravitational measurements of other planets, measurements of solar brightness over time, radioactive dating, continental drift, and many other factors. If you want to  force religion on people, don't do it in a SCIENCE forum! You will only cause heated debates and great offense from both sides.
264344
Geologists don't really know. And carbon dating has been proved to be inaccurate.\n   Just recently a geode was found.  A geologist looked at it and said it was 22 million years old, but when they x-rayed it they found a spark plug inside.  Guess what the spark plug was from 1961!!!!!  There are a lot of things being discovered in coal mines .     The coal layer is supposed to be 200 million years old but what are iron pots and brass bells and human bodies doing imbedded there.  They even found a concrete wall in one coal mine!!  Kind of makes you wonder about these things doesn't it?\n   The Bible says man has only been around about 6000 to 6500 years on the earth.
1176345
the earth is about 4.5 billion years old
1052541
Prehistoric Ice Man maybe .. i dunno
545884
wow I see a lot of people have commented on this and given their opinion on what they think is right.\n\nThe truth is it boils down two options\n1. The Universe is 6,000 thousand years old and G-d made it look older for some reason\n\n2. The Universe is Billions of years old.\n\nTo believe in the second answer you need to explain what the six days of Creation are right? One can simply argue that they are an aligory or one can say that they have some deeper meaning. \n\nI chose the latter because I find that it answers more questions and give a deeper insight.\n\nThe best answer to this question I find was a book called the Science of G-d by Gerald Schroeder.\n\nhere is an excerpt of the part you are interested in.\n\nhttp://www.geraldschroeder.com/age.html\n\nhope this helps
1018036
I understand what you're saying -- I believe in the theory of evolution.  But you do realize that people are just going to say God put it there in the beginning?  As fossils -- not as ancient creatures imprinted or encased in stone.
1137090
Here is something for you to ponder.....\nScientists claim that the earth is millions of years old. They make this claim by studying the layers of the earth (example: The Grand Canyon) If you look at the walls of the grand canyon, you can see many different layers of sediment on the walls of the canyon. The heavier and most dense rocks and solid formations are near the bottom of the canyon itself. The softer, less dense earth materials are nearer to the top of the canyon. Now...they claim this took millions or billions of years to happen.\nHere is a simple experiement to prove that theory wrong. Take a large jar or clear glass container and fill it with water (simulating the great flood of Noahs time) next fill it with sand, rocks, dirt and other earthly materials of your own choice....shake it all up to make a nice mixture. Within mere minutes you will see that the heavier earthly materials like the rocks and clay will sink to the bottom and the softer less dense materials will remain at the top and all of this will occur within minutes, not years. To me, this simple experiemnt is proof that the earth is not billions of years old and that the great flood that God put on this earth happend only a few thousand years ago, just around the time Jesus walked the earth! Think about it! I personally do believe there is a God, but I believe that scientists are wrong when they contemplate the earths age and structure, God does exist, in what form I do not know, but he does exist in some way and I get the feeling he is pissed off at most of us...So have faith my friend....Scientists are not always right by any means, God walked the earth only a few thousand years ago....not billions like scientists claim.
85861
~4.5 Billion years old.
1118534
No.  The only way of confirming its accuracy is to date objects that we already know how old they are.  These fall into the scope of the last 5000 years, a period which they already say is less accurate than when measuring older objects.  Scientists always seem to be arguing about the age of things regardless of what the carbon dating says.
782002
Evolutionists slam creationists for not having facts.\nWhat gets me is they dig up a bone and the bone is a fact. But then they proceed to claim its age as a fact. Sorry, it is not a fact. Determining the age of a bone makes an assumption that cannot be proven because the dating process assumes all things happen at the same rate now as they did long ago. And you can't prove that as a fact.
20041
Some believers in ID believe the earth is around 6,000 years old. \n\nAre you trying to make a parallel that something can have a designer, but still continue to improve and change under the care of its designer or due to environmental factors? \n\nMyself, I believe in micro evolution. Species adapt within certain parameters because of natural (or not-so-natural) selection. A dog, for instance, can be like a chihuahua or a great dane, but it's still a dog.\n\nI need more convincing to believe in macro evolution. Species changing into other species, etc.
820841
Joker gives a pretty good answer; though be it cut and paste, not that there is anything wrong with that.\nI would just like to bring to your attention that Carbon 14 dating is by no means accurate!\n"Dr. Libby, the discoverer of the C14 method, which won for him a Nobel prize, expressed his shock that human artifacts extended back only 5000 years, a finding totally in conflict with any evolutionary concept. Older dates were found to be very unreliable (CRSQ , 1972, 9:3, p.157). By this time tens of thousands of C14 dates have been published from tests performed by various laboratories around the world. In the annual volumes in which the dates are published, concerns have been expressed about many relatively young dates that violate established geological age notions. One example given was Ice-Age materials that were dated by C14 to fall within the Christian era (CRSQ , 1969, 6:2, p.114). In his book on prehistoric America, Ceram notes a classic case of the difficulties that befall C14 dating. Bones 30,000 years old were found lying above wood dated at 16,000 years (Ceram, 1971, p.257-259). "\nTake a look at this dinosaur bone (Illium bone of an Acrocanthosarus) dated at 19,000 years old.\nhttp://www.bible.ca/tracks/dating-acrocanthosarus-illium-bone.jpg\nTake a look at the source web site.  On that page if you scroll down a bit it will give you a list of carbon 14 as well at other dating methods possibly worth mentioning in your assignment. Have fun!