How can the EARTH BE 6,000 YEARS OLD?
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wow I see a lot of people have commented on this and given their opinion on what they think is right.\n\nThe truth is it boils down two options\n1. The Universe is 6,000 thousand years old and G-d made it look older for some reason\n\n2. The Universe is Billions of years old.\n\nTo believe in the second answer you need to explain what the six days of Creation are right? One can simply argue that they are an aligory or one can say that they have some deeper meaning. \n\nI chose the latter because I find that it answers more questions and give a deeper insight.\n\nThe best answer to this question I find was a book called the Science of G-d by Gerald Schroeder.\n\nhere is an excerpt of the part you are interested in.\n\nhttp://www.geraldschroeder.com/age.html\n\nhope this helps
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Every 64 million years or so, the earth is hit by gigantic comet and the impact is so tremendous that vast amounts of dust and debris is sent into the atmosphere, blocking out the sun. This causes massive drops in temperature sending the earth into an ice age, wiping out all life on earth. This very same catastrophe wiped out the lifeforms on the planet before the dinosaurs existed, and the lifeforms before those, since this planet has not been hit once, but many times, making this an incredibly ancient planet. Don't know if 64 million years will have passed since the last ice age by 2026 though.
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According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old.\n\nThe articles below discuss the evidence for this estimate.
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Geologists don't really know. And carbon dating has been proved to be inaccurate.\n   Just recently a geode was found.  A geologist looked at it and said it was 22 million years old, but when they x-rayed it they found a spark plug inside.  Guess what the spark plug was from 1961!!!!!  There are a lot of things being discovered in coal mines .     The coal layer is supposed to be 200 million years old but what are iron pots and brass bells and human bodies doing imbedded there.  They even found a concrete wall in one coal mine!!  Kind of makes you wonder about these things doesn't it?\n   The Bible says man has only been around about 6000 to 6500 years on the earth.
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~4.5 Billion years old.
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the human rase is much older than that. civilization is 6000 years old
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About 13.7 billion years ago.
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Measured by the decay of long-lived radioactive isotopes of elements that occur naturally in rocks and minerals and that decay with half lives of 700 million to more than 100 billion years to stable isotopes of other elements, scientists believe that the age of the earth is approximately 4.4 to 4.6 billion years old.
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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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The US Geological Survey has several articles with details on how the age is estimated.  They place the age at 4.5-4.6 billion years old.\n\nSome of it has been done by dating the oldest known rocks on earth and the moon, dating the crystals that were created before the rocks.  (Formed and recycled).  And some based on estimates of the ratio of isotopes of lead.
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Current models of Solar System formation indicate that all the  solid objects in the solar system (planets, moon, asteroids, etc) formed around the same time.  The oldest, unaltered piece of solid material we have found is about 4.6 billion years old (it is a particular type of meteorite).  So we place the formation of the Earth at the time period.\n\nWe can't find any Earth rocks that old, as earth has experienced far to much volcanic and techtonic activity in the past to preserve any of these original rocks.  We can and do find rocks as old as 3.8 billion years in the northeast portions of Canada, and even older samples have been found in the Australia region.
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Scientists say that the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old. The oldest rocks that have been found are 3.8-3.9 billion years old. They actually think the Earth is 4.55 billion years old to be specific. Just to let you know i got it off  a website.
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Age of the "world," taking Earth as the "world"...scientists estimate about 4.54 billion years.  Estimate was confirmed by radiometric dating using rubidium (and other decay series).  Radiometric dating is something I study, so that's why I trust this estimate.
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Supposedly the universe is estimated to be about 13.6 billion years old.  I think I read that on Wikipedia, though, so you never know...\n\nThat said, I really have so little idea what is out there or what conditions are necessary for life to arise that I don't know which theory is more plausible.  How flexible are the conditions that lead to the formation of primative cells on Earth?  Can there be life based on an entirely different set of molecules?  An entirely different set of elements (i.e. not carbon based)?  How many other planets have chemical compositions and climates like Earth?  Did life even originate on Earth? (I've heard the theory that primative cells could have originated on another planet and been brought here on an asteroid).  Could primative cells have left Earth on some sort of asteroid and taken up residence elsewhere?\n\nI'd like to think there's other life out there, just because it makes things more interesting.  Until I have reason to believe otherwise, I'll assume there is.
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The length of the year was about the same. The day has gotten a bit longer, so there were around 400 days in a year around 200 million years ago. For fossils only 6.5 million years old, there wouldn't be much difference (perhaps a day or two per year).
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I like your spirit. Keep it up!!\n\nAfter reading a few of the answers I can't help but break out in laughter. Is this 2006? or is it before Renaissance?\nMight I mention a few things: radio carbon dating, cosmic background radiation, speed of light, distance of some galaxies from us, the time to form heavy elements from hydrogen, half life of uranium...\nI think any one of these things will prove the age of the earth. Incidentally, the Hindu scriptures, Vedas are about 6000 years old. The last ice age ended 13000 years ago...\n\nI can't believe these same people boast about space travel. LMFAO.\n\nIncidentally for the person who said something about matter and energy. No matter and energy can't be created or destroyed. Matter and energy are actually the same thing in different forms. One is a more stable form, the other is a transient form.\n\nAnd the person who said the Bible is the truth. Well the bible didn't arrive by fax from heaven. It was written by men. The laws of physics, on the other hand, was written by God. Scientists merely discover them.
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The world was created in 6000 years. not 7.\n\n\n\n\n.