How very old is the planet Earth? Do you believe with the modern reality? With myth from your religion or old civilization?
How old is our Planet Earth?
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It's always great to hear what people have to say on this type of question. I personally have no idea and could not even guess. I've thought about questions like this many times. It's always different theories and facts. Each one seems to make a nice point that kind of gets me thinking.
I guess it depends on your beliefs and what you've learned. I like to think it's 10,000 years old and god does exist, but sometimes I get faithless and believe it's millions of years old. It could be both, but this question in general confuses me beyond belief when I think about it.
I guess it depends on your beliefs and what you've learned. I like to think it's 10,000 years old and god does exist, but sometimes I get faithless and believe it's millions of years old. It could be both, but this question in general confuses me beyond belief when I think about it.
Will E Worm
Conspiracy...
I believe close to what you both believe.
But, maybe a bit more. Possibly between ten to twenty thousand years old.
Will E Worm
Conspiracy...
You have been listening to David Icke again.
So, they say.
Carbon 14 Dating has made "mistakes" before.
The biggest carbon 14 dating mistake.
It's not an accurate form of dating anything.
You have been listening to David Icke again.
So, they say.
Carbon 14 Dating has made "mistakes" before.
The biggest carbon 14 dating mistake.
It's not an accurate form of dating anything.
There are many methods of dating besides carbon. When different methods come to the same conclusion the evidence becomes stronger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating
If so, then why are the enviromentalists so up in arms, if the planet started out as recycled space garbage? ;-)
Wow that old sweet earth roocks...
They don't care about Earth. They care about a hospitable Earth.
GabberMan
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It's in the billions unless you're a particularly loopy monotheist in which case it's 6,000+ years old. Doesn't explain quite how there are so many humans on the planet of course - unless people in the Bible were having a lot more kids than the authors let on. Anyway, we're all entitled to our own superstition. Just keep it away from my kids.
It was a guy called Bishop Ussher who dated the Creation as 4004 BC.
People actually believe it.
I'm staggered that there are many who prefer to accept a Middle Eastern creation myth than to actually look at the evidence around them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussher_chronology
Religious people can't allow themselves to beleive its that old.If they did it would undermine most of what the bible and other religions teach as fundamental truths and their faith in the truth of their religious teachings would be severly undermined.Creationism teaches the earth and everything else was created about 10,000 yeas ago which of course scientifically is ridiculous.
Oh.......I would say its at least half an hour old, you know give or take a few billion years.
With all the evidence in the world the religious folk still wouldnt believe it no matter how good of a case you make, and they always bring up a few mistakes in the research that have been corrected by even more sensitive dating techniques, but no science made a mistake.
"I'm going to bury my head in the sand and I'm not listening anymore!"
So what do the religious folk believe, they believe a book written almost 2 thousand years ago........
Nothing much more to say is there :dunno:
With all the evidence in the world the religious folk still wouldnt believe it no matter how good of a case you make, and they always bring up a few mistakes in the research that have been corrected by even more sensitive dating techniques, but no science made a mistake.
"I'm going to bury my head in the sand and I'm not listening anymore!"
So what do the religious folk believe, they believe a book written almost 2 thousand years ago........
Nothing much more to say is there :dunno:
Patrick_S
persona non grata
Anyone who select any other option than the "4+ Billion Years" option should be locked up in the looney bin. Not that it surprises me that people think that the earth is 20.000 years old, the religious freaks tend to completely ignore proven facts and/or simply make up their own "facts" that fit their beliefs.
Not all religious people take every single word from the Bible in it's most literal meaning, especially the first parts of Genesis and parts of Revelations. There are a lot of non-fundamentalist out there.
OK, let's accept the Biblical version.6000 years is around 300 generations , in that time the population has gone up from 2 to about 10 billion.Wow!
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