how old is the earth really?
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its only like 6,000 years old because it has been about 2000 years since Jesus came to earth and about 4,000 years before God created the world and the universe check with some bible experts
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Earth has been doing okay for the last 4.5-billion years, and should go right on for at least another 4-billion or so. The thing to worry about is how much longer mankind can exist on Earth. We're doing some incredibly stupid things to it, and each other.
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Check this out:\n\n"NASA's Hubble Space Telescope precisely measured the mass of the oldest known planet in our Milky Way galaxy. At an estimated age of 13 billion years, the planet is more than twice as old as Earth’s 4.5 billion years. It’s about as old as a planet can be. It formed around a young, sun-like star barely 1 billion years after our universe’s birth in the Big Bang. The ancient planet has had a remarkable history because it resides in an unlikely, rough neighborhood. It orbits a peculiar pair of burned-out stars in the crowded core of a cluster of more than 100,000 stars. The new Hubble findings close a decade of speculation and debate about the identity of this ancient world. Until Hubble’s measurement, astronomers had debated the identity of this object. Was it a planet or a brown dwarf? Hubble’s analysis shows that the object is 2.5 times the mass of Jupiter, confirming that it is a planet. Its very existence provides tantalizing evidence that the first planets formed rapidly, within a billion years of the Big Bang, leading astronomers to conclude that planets may be very abundant in our galaxy."
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So far I have found no reference in the Bible to the age of the earth or indeed the universe.\n\nTo iMi: I agree that looking at ages in the genealogies would indicate approximately 6000 years of history.\n\nHowever, the Hebrew word that is translated as "created" in Genesis 1:1 generally applies perfection, orderliness, completeness, etc. In Genesis 1:2 everything is in chaos. How much time elapsed between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2? I think there is any way for us to know.
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There are rocks older than 3.5 billion years on all continents, but the oldest found so far is Acasta Gneisses in northwestern Canada near Great Slave Lake (4.03 billion years old). \n\nOne of the oldest forms of life on earth is the stomatolites (3.5 billion years old or so), which are still found living in western Australia and a few other places.
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It's all guess work.\n\nTime did not exist until flesh man was created.\n\nConsider some scientific estimates or guesses. Not all scientists are going to agree. The Universe or heavens 20 billion years old. The Earth 4.6 billion years old. The Moon 200 to 300 million years younger than the Earth. Dinosaur extinction 65 million years ago. The Ice Age 2.5 million years ago. Oldest evidence of flesh man 7000 to 14000 years old.
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This is dervied from something called "Usher's Chronology." During the Middle Ages, a monk by name of Usher, thought that he could take the various geneologies in the Bible, add them all up, and come up with the age of the earth. Since almost all of the geneologies were passed down from father to son orally, and since the earth began long before human history began, his conclusion ( about 6,000 years ) was ludicrous. \n\nSome people still choose to believe this for reasons known only to them.
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its been millions of years
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Modern geologists, based on extensive and detailed scientific evidence, consider the age of the Earth to be around 4.567 billion years (4.567×109 years). This age represents a compromise between the oldest-known terrestrial minerals – small crystals of zircon from the Jack Hills of Western Australia – and astronomers' and planetologists' determinations of the age of the solar system based in part on radiometric age dating of meteorite material and lunar samples.\n\nThe radiometric age dating evidence from the zircons further confirms that the Earth is at least 4.404 billion years old. Comparing the mass and luminosity of the Sun to the multitudes of other stars, it appears that the solar system cannot be much older than those rocks. Ca-Al-rich inclusions (inclusions rich in calcium and aluminium) – the oldest known solid constituents within meteorites which are formed within the solar system – are 4.567 billion years old, giving an age for the solar system and an upper limit for the age of the Earth. It is assumed that the accretion of the Earth began soon after the formation of the Ca-Al-rich inclusions and the meteorites. Since the accretion time of the Earth is not exactly known yet, and the predictions from different accretion models vary between several millions up to about 100 million years, the exact age of the Earth is difficult to define.\n\nIn the centuries preceding the scientific revolution, the age of the Earth was determined from the accounts of creation by religious authority. Today some religious groups continue to accept only theological accounts regarding the age of the earth, rejecting scientific evidence which contradicts their beliefs.
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No, the Earth is much much older.  This is why the Bible is not to be taken literally.  If anything, we were meant to eventually point out these inconsistencies.  The truth is that the dinosaurs existed a long time ago (dragons) and were created to be just another amazing addition to life here on Earth.\n\nThe dinosaurs existed at a time when gravity as we experience it now was attenuated, and we experience much muss less of it.  This is how dinosaurs like the ultrasaur and massive bids like the teratorn were able to walk and fly around without collapsing under their own weight.
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4 Billion Years old, the oldest rocks (found in Canada and other places) are 4 billion years old.  Possibly all created when a huge planetoid crashed into the newly made earth.  This caused the whole planet to melt, created the moon, and cause the massive ammounts of iron on the earth to sink, due to its high desity and the melted earth, to the the core and create our magnetic field (the reason we can live).
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It depends on our age as to how long we have been living on the Earth.How old are you?That is how long you have been living on the earth.It is not likely that you have been living in the earth.
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No problem.  Only how can I consider the world to be as old as "science" dates it when I don't know how old "science" dates it today?  Every couple of years or so I read an article in a newspaper or a magazine telling me that "science" has just discovered that it was all wrong: the earth is actually so many hundred million years older (or younger) than they thought it was.  Personally, I can't help thinking there is a farcical aspect to that.  Especially when every time science changes its mind, nobody is allowed to question "science", or they will be branded as ignoramus.\nEDIT:\nDon't worry, if Rose Petal had reported you, your question would have been taken off.  She is just trying to get your goat.
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6 Billion years old. The Bible says that to God a day is a thousand years and a thousand years is a day, which basically means that God does not follow our time table, so the 7 days that it took God to create the Heavens and the Earth could have been millions of years.
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4.6 billion years old
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Around 4.57 billion years old.
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The official estimate now is 13.7 plus or minus 0.2 billion years old.\n\nBut this continues to be a tricky number to pin down. It depends primarily on the rate of expansion of the universe. Recently it has been found that the rate of expansion is increasing (that is the universe is expanding more today than it it did a billion years ago, and will be expanding faster a billion years into the future).\n\nHaving said that this continuing field of study in cosmology is no consolation for Young Earth Creationists. I mention that because some have a habit of jumping on any disagreement in science as a way to promote their own. The universe is clearly between 10 and 20 or 25 billion years old. Not 6,000 years old.