Scientists have calculated that Earth is 4.54 billion years old, with an error range of 50 million years.
still here is no conformation about this, the scientist are still confused about this. they are giving different ideas and figure about the age of the world. i think that is only Allah who know the real age of the earth and only he can know the ending date of the Earth.
Appeal to ignorance and putting therefore it is god. Remove your head out of your ass to avoid thinking this poorly. If you think science confuse you then don't use the things that scientist made and discovered, go back in stone age life.
Nobody has to talk about God to see that the scientists who calculate the age of the earth constantly use limiting words as disclaimers so that they can protect themselves from libel. This is the way they tell us, themselves, that they don't know that what they are telling us is factual.
Scientist may not tell the absolute truth but they can tell part of it and it means to us. I believe in scientist because unlike religion claiming certaing things, they claim a certain fact by observing and gathering data. It means it was scrutinized before presented as fact.
For example. Scientists can tell the truth of the half-life of C-14. Because of this, if the C-14 creation rate in the atmosphere was always the same as it is now, scientists could accurately date things.
The point is, scientists don't know if the C-14 creation rate was always the same. In fact, they don't know if there was any C-14 created in the atmosphere at all beyond about 5,000 years ago. So, we don't need all the examples of carbon dating inaccuracies that abound right now. We can see that nobody knows the truth using scientific means.
EDIT: If this was all, we could say that science simply made a mistake. But the fact that they don't tell you that they don't know, shows that they are deceptive, and shouldn't be believed without personal examination of EVERYTHING that they say.
It could be a foundation to base things, even though they might be wrong then what's wrong with that? As long as they are changeable it will never be a big deal. If they see something that is a mistake they can easily remove that data and look for another, scientist are doing trial and error until they get things that may suit things right.
I easily agree with this in many scientists. But not in others.
A scientist does some scientific studies, and tells someone what he found.
Then other scientists, the media, the governments and even book-writers take his information and say all kinds of "stuff" about it.
Then, average people read or hear about this information from:
1. The scientist who does the original studies;
2. Other scientists, the media, the governments and even book-writers;
3. And from their ignorant friends and neighbors.
We get different stories from all over the place. So we need to screw our heads on, and take a good look at the stories to see how they match logic and the whole of science.
The point isn't that scientists make mistakes at times, and other times they don't. The point isn't that science is changeable in some thing, and maybe not in other things.
The point is that anybody who claims he is telling the facts, when he knows that he might not be telling the facts, is an absolute liar. If we are truly attempting to be honest, we need to do due diligence on everything that we proclaim as fact before we proclaim it as fact. But if we find that we were mistaken in our claims, we need to confess our mistake.
Scientists are not stupid. They know that they don't know how old the universe and earth are. But it comes down to us as 13 to 15 billion years... like it is a fact. Who is the liar?
