Age of the earth

[Vadergirl123]

How old do you think the world is and why?

 

[9Westy9]

older than me for obvious reasons. and welcome

 

[Skwim]

How old do you think the world is and why?

About 4.5 billion years. That's what the experts say.

 

[YmirGF]

About 4.5 billion years. That's what the experts say.

Agreed. Is there really a need to ask this question?

 

[Skwim]

Agreed. Is there really a need to ask this question?

I'm sure it's a leading question, so we'll have to wait until Vadergirl123 returns and springs the real question on us.

 

[4consideration]

Hello,

My world is about 48 years old.

 

[The_Evelyonian]

How old do you think the world is and why?

The best available evidence points to an age of roughly 4.54 billion years.

 

[Willamena]

How old do you think the world is

About an instant.

and why?

Because an instant happened.

 

[Vadergirl123]

older than me for obvious reasons. and welcome

Thank you and I'm still trying to figure out how everything works, please bear with me

 

[Vadergirl123]

Agreed. Is there really a need to ask this question?

I think so I personally believe it's 6,000 years old

 

[Vadergirl123]

The best available evidence points to an age of roughly 4.54 billion years.

What available "evidence?" I haven't heard of any "evidence" for the world being 4.5 billion years old.

 

[The_Evelyonian]

I personally believe it's 6,000 years old

May I ask why?

 

[Vadergirl123]

About an instant.


Because an instant happened.

Hahaha what do you mean "an instant?"

 

[Vadergirl123]

May I ask why?

:yes:I believe the bible is the absolute authority on everything. And according to what it says the world is about 6,000 yrs old

 

[The_Evelyonian]

What available "evidence?" I haven't heard of any "evidence" for the world being 4.5 billion years old.

Start here -> The Age of the Earth

 

[Road Warrior]

What available "evidence?" I haven't heard of any "evidence" for the world being 4.5 billion years old.

This satisfies me:
Geologic Time: Age of the Earth

The ages of Earth and Moon rocks and of meteorites are 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. These dating techniques, which are firmly grounded in physics and are known collectively as radiometric dating, are used to measure the last time that the rock being dated was either melted or disturbed sufficiently to rehomogenize its radioactive elements.

Click to see a graphical representation of geologic time

Ancient rocks exceeding 3.5 billion years in age are found on all of Earth's continents. The oldest rocks on Earth found so far are the Acasta Gneisses in northwestern Canada near Great Slave Lake (4.03 Ga) and the Isua Supracrustal rocks in West Greenland (3.7 to 3.8 Ga), but well-studied rocks nearly as old are also found in the Minnesota River Valley and northern Michigan (3.5-3.7 billion years), in Swaziland (3.4-3.5 billion years), and in Western Australia (3.4-3.6 billion years).

 

[tumbleweed41]

What available "evidence?" I haven't heard of any "evidence" for the world being 4.5 billion years old.

To what do you attribute this ignorance of geology, chemistry, physics, astrophysics, and other sciences?

 

[Vadergirl123]

About 4.5 billion years. That's what the experts say.

Just because someone says something that doesn't make it true

 

[Gjallarhorn]

Just because someone says something that doesn't make it true

...unless it's in your holy book, amirite?

 

[Vadergirl123]

...unless it's in your holy book, amirite?

Hhahaha good point, but yeah if God says something then it's true.( I know very biased) lol but true