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paintballer222
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Does anyone have any opinions on how the Earth really is?

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FireflyIV
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What proof is there that the earth is so many billions of years old?


Radiometric Dating.

Comparing the half life of radioactive materials with the decay rate of rock samples. It is approximately 4.54 billion years old, and this figure is consistent with the oldest known terrestrial and lunar samples.
dragonball05
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[quote]Too much has happened to have happened in that short of time.


Like what?[/quote]
Lol did you really have to ask that? Well for on thing, dinosaurs. You think that the dinosaurs came into existence and went extinct within a few thousand years? No. Plus I shouldn't have focused it on things that have happened fitting into that amount of time, there's records of human existence before 6000/7000/8000 whatever years ago. The Greeks have written records dating back to like 14,000 years ago.
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Assuming as foutrytwo said this is a christianity v atheism type thing.

How old do christians think the earth is? When did "god" create this hunk of rock?

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I think the Earth is roughly around 6,000 years old, because the Bible tells me so! Carbon Dating in not really accurate and even if it was, God could've made the Earth old when he first created it.

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A few billion years old. Well because think how long it took for bacteria to evolve and turn into fish then land creatures then dinosaurs? Now think from the beginning of dinosaurs to today well that's about a few billion years.

dragonball05
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I think the Earth is roughly around 6,000 years old, because the Bible tells me so! Carbon Dating in not really accurate and even if it was, God could've made the Earth old when he first created it


written records! As I said before, we have written records from the Greeks from 14,000 years ago. That should be proof enough that the Earth is not 6,000 years old. What I think the Bible is actually saying is that there were humans that started believing in the God of monotheistic religions 6,000 years ago, which I don't think would be entirely accurate, but more accurate than the Earth being 6,000 years old.

And at d_dude.

A few billion years old. Well because think how long it took for bacteria to evolve and turn into fish then land creatures then dinosaurs? Now think from the beginning of dinosaurs to today well that's about a few billion years


It's good that you understand that the world is not a few thousand years old, but it did not take billions of years for dinosaurs to evolve into modern day animals. The first dinosaurs appeared around 251 million years ago. That's one-fourth of a billion years, not a few billion years. Other than that, your summary of evolution was fine.
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from the Greeks from 14,000 years ago

Wheres the record of this?


Thees Big eyed evolutionists think they know eveything.
The earth is not BILLIONS and BILLIONS years old its around 6000 years old.
Evolutionists have benn denied , and proven wrong countless times!But they keep going don't they?
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The Greeks have written records dating back to like 14,000 years ago.
Where do you get your sources? I haven't found anything that says anything like that.
Well because think how long it took for bacteria to evolve and turn into fish then land creatures then dinosaurs? Now think from the beginning of dinosaurs to today well that's about a few billion years.
The question is not "how long did that take," but "did it happen that way?" That is why this is going to be a Christianity vs. Atheism thread.
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Christinas saying the the earth is 5-6000 years old is stupid. You cant deny hard, scientific, just because some 2k year old book that cant even be traslated properly and has been changed and edited numerous time says so.

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Christinas saying the the earth is 5-6000 years old is stupid. You cant deny hard, scientific, just because some 2k year old book that cant even be traslated properly and has been changed and edited numerous time says so.

dragonball05
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Ok really. You think that it has been proven that the world is 6000 years old? Do you really believe that? And your proof is a book? A single book? It may be the Bible, but c'mon. You can't say that evolutionists have been completely disproven. It's not like the case with the spontaneous generation people in the past, saying that flies came from meat and stuff like that. It has not been disproven. And about the Greek written records. I saw someone who I thought was reliable once talk about them, but now that I searched for them I can not find anything about them. I did find something else older than 6000 years old, and here's the website.

http://www.prehistory.it/ftp/tartaria_tablets/tartaria_tablets_01.htm

jonnypants23
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and has been changed and edited numerous time and has been changed and edited numerous time says so.


You are something called : no facts :

What are you talking about !The bible has benn changed "numerous times "
You have no clue what your talking about.The bible has never been changed , and you are totally wrong for saying so.
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Roughly 4.6 billion years.

It takes a long time for a giant ball of molten rock the size of our planet to cool down. A billion years or so.

Not going to get into evolution, totally different train of thought.

Taa-Daaa.

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What are you talking about !The bible has benn changed "numerous times "


You are so naive.
Mobyduck
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You have no clue what your talking about.The bible has never been changed , and you are totally wrong for saying so.


Sorry, wrong quotation =O
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