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How Old is the Earth?

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How Old is the Earth?

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Age of the Earth - A Christian Perspective

Is there any evidence that the Earth is only
6,000 years old?
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Young Earth Challenge

Young Earth Claims and Evidence

Discussion of the various Young Earth claims and the evidence for and against it.  More >>

There is overwhelming evidence that Earth is at least millions of years old.  The general consensus among the various scientific groups (biologists, cosmologists, physicists, geneticists, etc.) is that it is about 4.5 billion years old.  While there is room for disagreement on this figure, the evidence that the Earth is at least millions of years old is overwhelming.  There are many claims by Young Earth Creationists that the Earth is less than 10,000 years old.  I have yet to find a single one of these claims that has any real merit.  Some of the most popular of these Young Earth claims are utter nonsense and most have been convincingly disproved, yet they are still being perpetuated and continue to persist in the public mind.  Those who continue to perpetuate these disproved claims are either incredibly uninformed, or are intentionally trying to mislead.  If you know of a Young Earth claim that has not been disproved, please send it to epicidiot.com.

Send good Young Earth claims to epicidiot.com and include references. 

If this sounds harsh, it's because intentionally misleading people is wrong.  Some of the Young Earth claims are so ridiculous and so easy to convincingly disprove that it is simply a lie to keep telling them.  And yet, they are repeated over and over again in current webs, publications, bible tracts (Lying in a Bible tract has got to be a sin, right?), etc.

Those who believe in the Bible should consider the following:

Remember the old saying, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

In much the same way the Church once taught the Earth-centered universe, some Christian groups are drawing a similar line in the sand: Either you believe that the Earth is very young as told in the Genesis account, or you don't believe the Bible.  With this firmly ingrained in their minds, how many will be driven away from the Bible as the evidence overwhelmingly mounts that the Earth is very old?  I believe that at best there is one more generation that will be willing to ignore the evidence and believe in a young Earth.  Just as Galileo's time marked the end of belief in the Earth-centered universe, the days of believing in a Young Earth are numbered.

See Does the Bible teach a Young Earth?

But, for the sake of fairness, I will continue to list Young Earth claims.  Read the evidence and decide for yourself.

Radiometric Dating
Radiometric dating gives the Earth an age of about 4.5 billion years and the Universe an age of about 17-20 billion years.  The validity of radiometric dating is often checked by comparing the radiometric date with non-radiometric dates of objects, such as historical accounts, tree rings, ice cores, etc.  More >>

Non-Radiometric Dating
These methods have been used to provide independent lower limits for the age of the Earth.  Also, by radiometrically dating these items the accuracy of  radiometric dating can be cross-checked.  This has shown that radiometric dating is in general extremely accurate.  Some of these include Tree Rings, Ice Cores, Coral Reefs, Varves, Green River Shale, Lake Suigetsu Algae.  More >>

Creation Dating based on the Bible
Many have used the events in the Bible to calculate when the Genesis creation occurred.  They generally give a date of about 4000 B.C., although they range from about 3,600 B.C. to 10,000 B.C.   The most famous of these was done by Archbishop Ussher, who determined that the day of creation day was October 23, 4004 BC.  More >>

Video Review
Radioisotopes & the Age of The Earth - Can radioisotope dating be trusted?  This video explores Mt. St. Helens and the Grand Canyon seeking an answer to this question.

Video Review
Mount St. Helens: Explosive Evidence for Catastrophe - Does the evidence from the recent eruption of Mt. St. Helens provide evidence for a young earth?

For another interesting view of cosmological origins
Cosmology and Cosmythology by Victor J. Stenger

Want an in-depth knowledge of how the age of the Earth is determined?
Read The Age of the Earth by G. Brent Dalrymple

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2005-12-21 Anonymous (Atheistic Evolutionist) wrote
Interesting, Factual, Biased to Evolution
 

2006-07-17 07:31:54 Atheistic Evolutionist wrote
Interesting, I'm not sure of the accuracy,

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