Topic: How old is earth (Read 12917 times)

This is a good question.
No one knows how old the earth is.
Because way back in the past, there are people who lives in here for too long until they got died. Then there is another batch then and so on.
That's why they don't know exactly how old it is.

I have to disagree.   You can calculate the age, and then you have an error bound.

For example, on this forum we could even agree, the age of the earth is somewhere between 5 thousand and 5 billion years.  But scientifically, we can get much more precise.

There is no way to get exact.  When did the Earth form?  Was it when 90% of the material on the Earth today had formed on the then primeval Earth, or 95%, or 99%?  You pick when it "formed."

what is this,what did you actually mean dude.


you really cannot calculate the age of the earth only thing you can do at the most is speculate the age,assumptions are not facts and so it is not believable

i think no one know about the fact that how old is the fact and still no one can tell the exact time that from what time the earth is existence but it is assumed that the earth is about billions and billions of years old.

None of this tells us the age. It all tells us what the age appears to be. If God set these things in place as though they had been running the whole length that science suggests that they have existed, we wouldn't know it without a time machine to go back and look. Nor would we know it when scientists make big mistakes like they do with carbon dating; they don't know if C-14 existed on the earth much further back than 5,000 years; it's all guesswork.

The age of the earth by scientists is guesswork. The Bible is the clear record. The fact of the existence of God is proven by science and shown by nature. Believe God, not the scientists. The scientists don't know.

Its impossible to know if when earth is alive or how old are earth.. well there is no bad to speculate. but according to google i just search it 4.543 billion years old is earth..

Correct.

Various rocks tell us age, simple example is sedimentary rocks.  Also types of aggregation, such as gold deposits.  To a geologist, rock formations are layer, and each has a range of ages, which are pretty well known.

That's not even getting into the isotopes.

Theory is not know to be fact. Chemical theory is guesswork.

old earth can know with calculation chemical theory
or physics science
only use science you can known old is earth

Earth is 6000 years old.

yeah I'm not really sure how we can measure or what metrics are we going to use to know how old the earth is. and I don't think we should concern ourselves about that haha we should worry more on how to take care of this earth because it's pretty much the only one that we have

BADecker, you are a little off track here my friend.    Once created in an image > always created in an image - it's the image of GOD. I have it, you have, every body has it. Be it distorted, twisted, contorted, bent, flipped, cracked, crushed, bruised or even broken, it still is the image of GOD, and always will be.

About 500 Million Years . Lol no one knows , else God who created it .

i think no one knows how olds earth now scienetist may given the year but not the exactly because i know that its almost centuries past and still rhe earth and other planet are there except one planet i think pluto was gone long time ago right? no one can give the exact date others tells that lord created earth

Perhaps this topic should be in the Off-topic section.

If your grandparents tell you how old the stones are, and they say that their grandparents told them, you need to believe them. Other than that, the stones are only as old as when you remember seeing them the first time. They aren't really that old at all.

The only real record we have for the age of the earth is right here http://www.albatrus.org/english/theology/creation/biblical_age_earth.htm.

this is quite an strange topic asked in bitcoin related forum,take a look at stones and think about how old it might be,since those matters existed as long as the earth and was formed and as old as the earth iteself,be it in solid or molten form.

Is that where you stopped reading? Right after the image of God part? Don't you remember that mankind lost the perfect image of God when sin came into the world? Only through belief in the death of Jesus, and His resurrection, is that image restored.

But we don't see that image restored right now. Why not? Because the restoration is by faith in God, for a time when God will destroy this universe and take His faithful ones to the New Universe He is preparing for us.

How do we know that the restored image is not for this life? We know it because we daily make mistakes. And nobody can keep himself/herself from death when his/her time is up.

The mistaken idea that the earth is really old, beyond the 6,200 years or so, is something that can be forgiven by God, if the ignorance of the age-of-the-earth fact is held a certain way. But it is dangerous to hold the wrong age in mind. Here is why.

You didn't actually watch the life, death and resurrection of Jesus while it was happening. You understand it by faith in God, that the words God directed His apostles and prophets to write is correct. Yet, it is only by this faith that you will be saved, because you didn't actually witness the things of the past. If you reject the words that God wrote about Jesus-salvation, you will lose your salvation. So, how is it that you can pick and choose which words of God to believe? Either you believe what God says or you don't. And if you don't believe Him about the age of the earth being about 6,200 years, why would you believe Him about Jesus-salvation? And if you don't believe Him about Jesus-salvation, you don't have salvation.

The Bible is a complex thing. Anybody can hold a mistaken understanding of some of it and be forgiven. If you mistakenly think that this explanation is not the thing that God was expressing - http://www.albatrus.org/english/theology/creation/biblical_age_earth.htm - but that God was expressing something else by those words, then you could still be believing God, and that is what is important for you salvation.

But the words at http://www.albatrus.org/english/theology/creation/biblical_age_earth.htm are quite clear. So don't reject them if you want to believe what God says. Otherwise you just might not believe Him for salvation, either.

Genesis 1:27  Young's Literal Translation:

 And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them

Therefore I am in the image spoken of. I do see the glory of man. It's great, it's wonderful. It has opened my eyes and now I see. I see the earth is really really old.

2 Corinthians 4:4
But even the believers are blinded about things that they don't trust and believe God for - http://www.albatrus.org/english/theology/creation/biblical_age_earth.htm.

I think the earth is really very very old. It's not even possible to adequately express it in human related terms. In terms of why I think it's that old I can say it's just a feeling I have - I sense the ancientness of earth you could say.