How Old Is The Earth?
The religion of evolution contends that the Earth and the galaxy are millions and/or billions of years old. They hypothesize that both were formed by cosmic coincidence; something void of life suddenly exploded and the most basic forms of life began.
Their religious beliefs teach Cosmic evolution (the formation of the galaxies, stars, and at least nine known planets around the sun); Chemical evolution (life began from non-living material); and Biological evolution (the first life form spontaneously diversified into different forms of living things such as plants and animals and that those living creatures are capable and interested in reproducing themselves).
I call evolution a religion because like a religion their summations are based solely on belief and not on indisputable scientific fact. Without going into great detail, mainly because I am not a chemist, the famed radiocarbon 14 testing is only accurate up to several thousand years. To use it as a gauge for a presumption of millions of years creates a great deal of room for miscalculation.
We can all assume three very important and common positions. One, a universe with great design and order exists. Two, at least one planet in our universe contains a wide variety of life forms. Three, man appears to be the most advanced form of life on this planet.
With those three building blocks let’s examine the factual evidence. The Earth is located exactly the right distance from the sun. Consider the temperature swings we encounter, roughly -30 degrees to +120 degrees. If the Earth were any further away from the sun, we would all freeze; any closer and we would burn up. Even a fractional variance in the Earth's position to the sun would make life on Earth impossible. The Earth remains this perfect distance from the sun while it rotates around the sun at a speed of nearly 67,000 mph. It is also rotating on its axis, allowing the entire surface of the Earth to be properly warmed and cooled every day.
And our moon is the perfect size and distance from the Earth for its gravitational pull. The moon creates important ocean tides and movement so ocean waters do not stagnate, and yet it restrains our massive oceans from spilling over across the continents.
The human brain simultaneously processes an amazing amount of information. Your brain takes in all the colors and objects you see, the temperature around you, the pressure of your feet against the floor, the sounds around you, even the dryness of your mouth. Your brain registers emotional responses, thoughts and memories. At the same time your brain keeps track of the ongoing functions of your body like your breathing pattern, eyelid movement, hunger and movement of the muscles in your hands.
The human brain processes more than a million messages a second. Your brain weighs the importance of all this data, filtering out the relatively unimportant. This screening function is what allows you to focus and operate effectively in your world. A brain that deals with more than a million pieces of information every second, while evaluating its importance and allowing you to act on the most pertinent information...all of this without intentional design!? You wouldn’t say the watch your wearing just came into being would you? If you believe there is a watch, then you have to believe there is a watch maker.
So back to the original question...just how old is the earth? Protestant Bishop James Ussher (1581–1656), one of the greatest scholars and theologians of his time, who around 1650 A.D. insisted that God created the world in 4004 B.C. Science and what we can observe tells us that this statement is incorrect. Of interest though - nothing in the fossil records indicates man existed more than 6,000 - 8,000 years ago. So perhaps Bishop Ussher and the chronological time scale of the Bible is exact after all - 6009 (in 2005) years or so.
Accounts of the worldwide flood come in from nearly every culture on earth. Most of these are identical. Flood accounts come in from Mayan, Persian, Aztec, Sanskrit, Chinese, Egyptian, Babylonian, Inca, Samarian, American Indian, Jewish cultures, and more. The Mayan writings say that water cleansed the earth in 3113 B.C. dating creation to about 6009 years ago.
Bishop Ussher was the Primate of All Ireland. The Bishop established the first day of creation as Sunday 23 October 4004 BC. He calculated the dates of other biblical events, concluding, for example, that Adam and Eve were driven from Paradise on Monday 10 November 4004 BC, and that the ark touched down on Mt Ararat on 5 May 2348 BC `on a Wednesday'.
Ussher began his calculation by adding the ages of the twenty-one generations of people of the Hebrew-derived Old Testament, beginning with Adam and Eve. Working backwards through the Book of Judges, Ussher computed 330 years for the duration of the rule of Judges. The chronology first appeared in The Annals of the Old Testament, a monumental work first published in London in the summer of 1650.
Ussher's proposed date of 4004 BC was not greatly different from the estimates of the Venerable Bede (3952 BC) or Ussher's near-contemporary, Scaliger (3949 BC). It was widely believed that the Earth's potential duration was 6,000 years (4,000 before the birth of Christ and 2,000 after) corresponding to the six days of Creation, on the grounds that "one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day" (2 Peter 3:8).
Shakespeare, in As You Like It, has his character Rosalind say, “The poor world is almost six thousand years old.” Martin Luther, the great reformer, favored (liking the round number) 4000 B.C. as a date for creation. Astronomer Johannes Kepler concluded that 3992 B.C. was the probable date. The Mayan calendar dates the creation of the Earth to August 11 or August 13, 3114 BC (establishing that date as the zeroth day of the Long Count 13.0.0.0.0). The Mayan Calendar ends abruptly in 2012 A.D.
Currently, there is a near consensus among earth atheist scientists that the age of "Earth and the rest of our solar system is 4.54 billion years, plus or minus 0.02 billions years." This seems to change by a billion or so years every 5 years or so, however.
What about dinosaurs? Every natural history museum in the world today displays large dinosaur models so we know they existed. They did exist, but not millions of years ago. There are many references to dinosaur-like creatures in both the Protestant and Catholic versions of the Bible. However, the word "dinosaur" isn't found anywhere in the Bible because it didn't exist as a word until the 1840's. Prior to that, the most common word used to describe dinosaur-like creatures was "dragon", and that word is found many times in scriptures. The word "behemoth" was also commonly used. The Bible best description of a dinosaur is in Job 40:15-24. Job is a very old book, probably written around 2000 B.C. Here God describes one of the larger dinosaurs. It is said to be describing a Brachiosaurus. It is a giant plant eating animal with strong bones. It is not afraid of anything. In Job this dinosaur is compared to the ancient cedar. The Lord then described a monstrous creature that was beyond man’s ability to control, and thus a striking example of the superiority of Heaven’s power as compared to man’s.
Stories of ancient encounters with dinosaurs/dragons are found in China, Thailand, including other parts of Asia, and in Roman, Russian, Germanic, Anglo-Saxon, North, South, and Central America, and across Africa too. Are we so much smarter and more academically inclined than all of our ancestors that we should reject all of their historical records - just to prop up temporary evolutionary theory?
Dragons and sea monsters have become mostly extinct prior to our modern era. By the way, there is evidence that they grew much larger prior to the Great Flood. Just as humans lived much longer (Genesis records ages of some people to have reached over 900 years!) so a reptile ... living much longer then could have grown much larger before the Flood - which is indeed what we see in the fossil record of the pre-Flood world.
Humans and lions live on Earth at the same time today. But we live in different places. Porpoises will ram sharks that come into their waters. So naturally then they also live in different places - while living at the same time. Why couldn't humans and dinosaurs have lived at the same time? They'd probably keep mostly separate and then get buried separately if there was a catastrophe, but this could be theoretically possible, correct? There are at least two places known today with human and dinosaur tracks in the same sedimentary layer: one is in Paluxy, Texas, the other in Eastern Turkmenistan. Plus we have the legends, from all inhabited continents mind you, which should not be automatically discounted.
To answer the question of how old is the Earth I used several online resources. I hope my compilation of the theories and facts shed’s new light on the subject, helped to answer the question, and has given you something solid to defend your faith with. It is not a safe thing to remove from God the credit due Him for his creations.
Their religious beliefs teach Cosmic evolution (the formation of the galaxies, stars, and at least nine known planets around the sun); Chemical evolution (life began from non-living material); and Biological evolution (the first life form spontaneously diversified into different forms of living things such as plants and animals and that those living creatures are capable and interested in reproducing themselves).
I call evolution a religion because like a religion their summations are based solely on belief and not on indisputable scientific fact. Without going into great detail, mainly because I am not a chemist, the famed radiocarbon 14 testing is only accurate up to several thousand years. To use it as a gauge for a presumption of millions of years creates a great deal of room for miscalculation.
We can all assume three very important and common positions. One, a universe with great design and order exists. Two, at least one planet in our universe contains a wide variety of life forms. Three, man appears to be the most advanced form of life on this planet.
With those three building blocks let’s examine the factual evidence. The Earth is located exactly the right distance from the sun. Consider the temperature swings we encounter, roughly -30 degrees to +120 degrees. If the Earth were any further away from the sun, we would all freeze; any closer and we would burn up. Even a fractional variance in the Earth's position to the sun would make life on Earth impossible. The Earth remains this perfect distance from the sun while it rotates around the sun at a speed of nearly 67,000 mph. It is also rotating on its axis, allowing the entire surface of the Earth to be properly warmed and cooled every day.
And our moon is the perfect size and distance from the Earth for its gravitational pull. The moon creates important ocean tides and movement so ocean waters do not stagnate, and yet it restrains our massive oceans from spilling over across the continents.
The human brain simultaneously processes an amazing amount of information. Your brain takes in all the colors and objects you see, the temperature around you, the pressure of your feet against the floor, the sounds around you, even the dryness of your mouth. Your brain registers emotional responses, thoughts and memories. At the same time your brain keeps track of the ongoing functions of your body like your breathing pattern, eyelid movement, hunger and movement of the muscles in your hands.
The human brain processes more than a million messages a second. Your brain weighs the importance of all this data, filtering out the relatively unimportant. This screening function is what allows you to focus and operate effectively in your world. A brain that deals with more than a million pieces of information every second, while evaluating its importance and allowing you to act on the most pertinent information...all of this without intentional design!? You wouldn’t say the watch your wearing just came into being would you? If you believe there is a watch, then you have to believe there is a watch maker.
So back to the original question...just how old is the earth? Protestant Bishop James Ussher (1581–1656), one of the greatest scholars and theologians of his time, who around 1650 A.D. insisted that God created the world in 4004 B.C. Science and what we can observe tells us that this statement is incorrect. Of interest though - nothing in the fossil records indicates man existed more than 6,000 - 8,000 years ago. So perhaps Bishop Ussher and the chronological time scale of the Bible is exact after all - 6009 (in 2005) years or so.
Accounts of the worldwide flood come in from nearly every culture on earth. Most of these are identical. Flood accounts come in from Mayan, Persian, Aztec, Sanskrit, Chinese, Egyptian, Babylonian, Inca, Samarian, American Indian, Jewish cultures, and more. The Mayan writings say that water cleansed the earth in 3113 B.C. dating creation to about 6009 years ago.
Bishop Ussher was the Primate of All Ireland. The Bishop established the first day of creation as Sunday 23 October 4004 BC. He calculated the dates of other biblical events, concluding, for example, that Adam and Eve were driven from Paradise on Monday 10 November 4004 BC, and that the ark touched down on Mt Ararat on 5 May 2348 BC `on a Wednesday'.
Ussher began his calculation by adding the ages of the twenty-one generations of people of the Hebrew-derived Old Testament, beginning with Adam and Eve. Working backwards through the Book of Judges, Ussher computed 330 years for the duration of the rule of Judges. The chronology first appeared in The Annals of the Old Testament, a monumental work first published in London in the summer of 1650.
Ussher's proposed date of 4004 BC was not greatly different from the estimates of the Venerable Bede (3952 BC) or Ussher's near-contemporary, Scaliger (3949 BC). It was widely believed that the Earth's potential duration was 6,000 years (4,000 before the birth of Christ and 2,000 after) corresponding to the six days of Creation, on the grounds that "one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day" (2 Peter 3:8).
Shakespeare, in As You Like It, has his character Rosalind say, “The poor world is almost six thousand years old.” Martin Luther, the great reformer, favored (liking the round number) 4000 B.C. as a date for creation. Astronomer Johannes Kepler concluded that 3992 B.C. was the probable date. The Mayan calendar dates the creation of the Earth to August 11 or August 13, 3114 BC (establishing that date as the zeroth day of the Long Count 13.0.0.0.0). The Mayan Calendar ends abruptly in 2012 A.D.
Currently, there is a near consensus among earth atheist scientists that the age of "Earth and the rest of our solar system is 4.54 billion years, plus or minus 0.02 billions years." This seems to change by a billion or so years every 5 years or so, however.
What about dinosaurs? Every natural history museum in the world today displays large dinosaur models so we know they existed. They did exist, but not millions of years ago. There are many references to dinosaur-like creatures in both the Protestant and Catholic versions of the Bible. However, the word "dinosaur" isn't found anywhere in the Bible because it didn't exist as a word until the 1840's. Prior to that, the most common word used to describe dinosaur-like creatures was "dragon", and that word is found many times in scriptures. The word "behemoth" was also commonly used. The Bible best description of a dinosaur is in Job 40:15-24. Job is a very old book, probably written around 2000 B.C. Here God describes one of the larger dinosaurs. It is said to be describing a Brachiosaurus. It is a giant plant eating animal with strong bones. It is not afraid of anything. In Job this dinosaur is compared to the ancient cedar. The Lord then described a monstrous creature that was beyond man’s ability to control, and thus a striking example of the superiority of Heaven’s power as compared to man’s.
Stories of ancient encounters with dinosaurs/dragons are found in China, Thailand, including other parts of Asia, and in Roman, Russian, Germanic, Anglo-Saxon, North, South, and Central America, and across Africa too. Are we so much smarter and more academically inclined than all of our ancestors that we should reject all of their historical records - just to prop up temporary evolutionary theory?
Dragons and sea monsters have become mostly extinct prior to our modern era. By the way, there is evidence that they grew much larger prior to the Great Flood. Just as humans lived much longer (Genesis records ages of some people to have reached over 900 years!) so a reptile ... living much longer then could have grown much larger before the Flood - which is indeed what we see in the fossil record of the pre-Flood world.
Humans and lions live on Earth at the same time today. But we live in different places. Porpoises will ram sharks that come into their waters. So naturally then they also live in different places - while living at the same time. Why couldn't humans and dinosaurs have lived at the same time? They'd probably keep mostly separate and then get buried separately if there was a catastrophe, but this could be theoretically possible, correct? There are at least two places known today with human and dinosaur tracks in the same sedimentary layer: one is in Paluxy, Texas, the other in Eastern Turkmenistan. Plus we have the legends, from all inhabited continents mind you, which should not be automatically discounted.
To answer the question of how old is the Earth I used several online resources. I hope my compilation of the theories and facts shed’s new light on the subject, helped to answer the question, and has given you something solid to defend your faith with. It is not a safe thing to remove from God the credit due Him for his creations.
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