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No.
No it wasn't.
Why do I think it matters how old the Earth is?
There are two reasons:
I take the Bible literally – and seriously. And the Bible strongly affirms a date in the neighborhood of 6,000 years, at least for the age of man, who was created on the sixth day, according to Genesis. If that’s not true, it calls into question the rest of the Bible’s accuracy.
Atheists like Dawkins and Hawking are every bit as dogmatic about their theories of the age of the Earth as I am. They know they need lots of time to give their fairy tales about life spontaneously generating any credibility at all. Godless miracles require time, you know, lots of time.
Science equals fairy tales, but a book is FACT? But this is my favorite part:
I know what some of you are thinking: “Farah, what about the dinosaurs that were tens of millions of years old? How do you explain that?” Quite simply, I don’t believe it. Throughout man’s history, in every culture, we have stories, pictures and sculptures depicting dragons and leviathans and sea serpents. Are we to believe these were all concocted in man’s imagination? Even the Bible references such observations. If behemoths like the one described in chapter 40 of the Book of Job somehow threatened the Bible account of history, I don’t think it would be there.
Throughout history, we also have accounts of wizards and hobbits and Godzilla and nymphs and centaurs and Zeus and Thor and hydras and lots of other creatures that have to be true because otherwise someone wouldn't have written about them.
Phew! Fun! Now let's see the crazies respond, below the fold.
This isn't a question that drives atheists up the wall. It's a question atheists ignore. Find one and try it.
You know what else atheists and smart people ignore? Unicorns. WHY DO THEY IGNORE UNICORNS?
First they said that the earth is now 4.5 billions years old.Dawkings,""Stephen Hawking""s,Sam Harris and Skeptic Atheists affirmed that.They insists that that the estimation is correct.The dating Methods of Patterson in the 1950s was correct?
Today scientists estimated another 7 billions difference.Isn't that to mean that Patterson's calculation was totally flawed?(Assuming E being equal).The Radio Metric dating was wrong then.
Scientists of yester years kept predicting older and older of the earth,and one by one got it wrong again and again.
I scolded one Jone Lang Wotton agent,for she said the property is about 26 or 27 millions S $.One million difference.I told her,please tell me,for sale at 26 or 27.Buyers need to know the exact offer,not too much variations.
Estimation of 5 to 12 billions is like an illiterate person,may as well don't offer estimates.This gigantic errors already seen them as foolish people,so how to trust them?
So unless you get the EXACT NUMBER OF BILLIONS correctly, the world is 6,000 years old.
Don't forget that the earth rotates 365 times in one orbit or one year.
365 rotations times 5 billion years equals 1.8 trillion rotations.
365 rotations times 12 billion years equals almost 4.4 trillion rotations.
The earth just keeps spinning and spinning and spinning... Who would have ever thought that our world was the world's first perpetual motion machine. Yet, have you ever seen a moon or planet that doesn't spin? The scientists have reached a consensus, the science is settled. It really is possible to defy the laws of physics.
Um, the earth
WILL stop spinning. In 1.9 trillion years. Except that it won't. It'll stop spinning when our son goes supernova in about five billion years and wipes out our home planet. So, um, not a perpetual motion machine, Einstein.
It was Patterson in the 50s,he tested a Meteorite Rock,and with that outdated Measurement,and inaccurate Methods,that was how 4.5 billions years of earth arrived.
It was pure Hoax,nonsense and mostly unscientific.They assumed this outer Space Rock to be that from the Moon?Do you know why they don't want to Test Rock from this earth?When you talk about your Grandfather's age,and to say your grandfather is 90 years old,that also means,you as his grandson must also be 90 years old...isn't that most ridiculous?
Despite the fact that Radio Metric Dating is very doubtful,yet they dare to state it as Science,and continue to declare that Earth is 4.5 billions years.
The Satellite of our day,can understand where Meteorite came from,already destabilsed that wrong Theory.
The Rock most likely not from the Moon at all.The PROBABILITY... is unlikely.Universe too big.
Damn scientists know that if they carbon dated rocks on earth, it would show the planet was only 6,000 years old, because god didn't create the UNIVERSE and the MOON 6,000 years ago silly, those were a pre-existing condition!
II Peter 2:5 "For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old,.." This verse is saying that God made a mature earth, He didn't go around planting seeds for trees or making eggs so chickens could hatch. This would also imply that since there would be skeletons, He created them with the earth. Just trust and believe the Bible.
That god, so sneaky, dropping in fake dinosaur skeletons so that creationists could come up with stupid crazy theories!
One more thing -- when you atheists go home to your loved ones, why shower them with affection, kiss them, and do things for them when survival of the fittest is all that should dictate how "life" is supposed to be lived? Why treat them as if they have more intrinsic value than being just a collection of chance-random molecular formations and mutations that have occured over billions of years? In a God-less world that is supposed to be tooth, nail, and claw why do we continue to see deeds of extraordinary goodness in the midst of evil all around us? If there is no God, why do we call some things good and others evil? Isn't it because there IS SOMETHING INSIDE YOU, some God-given innate thing that discerns between right and wrong?
Hmmm, illuminating. Affection can only exist because of god, because species don't survive any better when they take care of their young, and the presence of evil proves the existence of an all-powerful god who ... is cool with allowing evil into the world?
I believe that the Earth is no older than 10,000 years old. Plenty of creationists who are true Christians will say 6,000 but I prefer to say it is slightly older by 4,000 years. After all, we don't know how long Adam and Eve were in Eden before they sinned. Of course I could be wrong on its age, but there is no way it can be older than 10,000. BTW, where are all those so-called "transitional forms" between man and ape? Billions of years means trillions of those around, but we have never found a single one.
As long as we're pulling numbers out of our asses, how about 14,000? Or maybe 3,000?
IF, as evolutionists claim, the earth is billions of years old, and mankind has evolved from a lower and simpler form of life, then why has mankind gone from writing upon stones to laser printers in just the past 3,500 years? Why is it that mankind has only discovered better inventions in the past few thousand years? If mankind had evolved, as evolutionists claim, then why didn't man discover ink a million years ago? Think about it. This is an astonishing thought--There were NO planes, cars, computers, refrigerators, electricity, lights, gas, powered-equipment, telephones, recording devices, CD players, MP3 players, electric razors, televisions, record players, movie cameras, or a million other modern technological inventions--just a mere 170 years ago. Civilization has advanced from utter primitiveness to incredible mind-boggling achievements in just a little over 100 years. So why didn't mankind discover any of this stuff 100,000,000 years ago, or 100,000 years ago for that matter?
The truth is that mankind has taken baby-steps since 4,000 B.C., and it took him nearly 6,000 years just to learn to wash his hands to prevent disease!. This is just another undeniable PROOF that evolution is a lie. If mankind had evolved over millions of years, then men would have discovered these inventions a very long time ago.
"Humans didn't invent ink 100 million years ago, therefore evolution doesn't exist" is strangely non-persuassive.
The earth is probably around 6,013 years old. It is not much more than that. One thing that is clear when someone "allows" for the possibility of evolutionism: he or she has not checked with the Lord. Most people who allow for evolutionism are more interested in claiming a worldly "education" than in knowing the facts. That's because, fact is, God is accurate, and humans aren't. (Yeah. Do your homework. Don't be so ignorant. Arguing with the Lord is only going to make you more stupid.)
I propose a holy war between those who think the earth is 6,013 years old, 6,028 years old, and 10,000 years old. It's time for this issue to be conclusively decided once and for all, via the sword! But then again, maybe I'll just check with the lord and report back on what she says.
Outstanding article Mr. Farah, and I agree with you 100%. The universe is less than 10,000 years old. The oldest man that has ever been found was that guy in the Swiss Alps who dated to 3500 BC, and he was a lot more sophisticated than anyone thought. Cavemen is also a lie that comes from the theory of evolution--which really isn't even a theory because it doesn't pass the scientific method.
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Hawking is a complete whack job. Does anybody even know what gravity is? Nobody knows what it is. Sure Newton told us how to calculate its effects, but nobody knows how it works.
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The question that usually comes up in this debate is "where did God come from"? For now we just have to believe that He always existed and that He was not created.
A fossil of a man-like animal was dated to 3500 BC, therefore the universe can't be older than 10,000 years old. Logically!
If you believe the bible as I do, you have to believe that death did not come into the world until after Adam sinned. So all the death observed in the various sedimentary beds of the earth occurred less than about 6000 years ago. Those sedimentary layers all over the world were deposited by the water of the flood which occurred during Noah's day.
Creation scientists have discovered Carbon 14 in diamonds and if you believe diamonds are millions of years old that would be impossible. Carbon 14 only sticks around for thousands of years.
There is only ONE sedimentary layer in the entire planet because Noah.
Quite courageous of you, Joseph, so boldly and publicly proclaiming such a currently counterculture belief. People who actually think for themselves may consider the proposition. People who are thoroughly steeped and vested in evolutionary theory will not entertain the thought, no matter what evidences are presented.
Those people steeped and vested in reality won't consider your courageous fairy tale!
I believe in the Bible. That being said, someone who does believe in evolution would have to explain to me how an eye, which requires everything that makes it work to function properly, including the brain, just managed, by chance, to happen.
Here you go. You're welcome!
Scientist think they know what happened millions of years ago but they still can't figure out what happened 6000 years ago. Something is wrong here.
The intelligence of this crowd, for certain.
When we are in heaven, we will have all eternity to study how God created the heavens and the earth. We will have access to the heavenly library and be able to examine the blueprints. I expect that how He designed and implemented His creation was extremely complicated and that there was much more to it then simply speaking it into existence. The Bible was not meant to be a scientific manual of how God created everything. The Bible was written for an ancient people and for us too. Therefore the absolute Truth that God created everything had to be written so that all of us in each time period could understand the central Truth of our existence.
Will we have access to the celestial internet, or are god's libraries still using microfiche?
I think that the earth could have been here far longer than 6000 years. The Bible says that the earth was void and without form...that says to me, the earth did exist but it couldn't support the life of man as God created him, so God redesigned the earth to support mankind.
Seriously, this can only be resolved via religious war.