Old Earth vs. Young Earth - Progressive Rock Music Forum

I'm against the fatalist climate nutjobs, I'm against religious nutjobs as well.
If the Earth is 6000 years old, I'm Mary Poppins.

Two random guys agreed to shake hands. Just Because. They felt like it, you know. It was an agreement of sorts...a random agreement.

Although this thread is focusing on the earth, one point that should be noted is that young earth creationists not only believe the earth is less than 10,000 years old, but also the universe. They are essentially challenging the laws of physics and reality.

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Wow......it absolutely blows my mind that anyone would think the world is only 6000 years old.......I'm speechless.

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Voted for option #2 because this comes a little closer. I may be wrong, but I was not there when Planet Earth was created.

Either way I am a creationist.

huh.... what are you all smoking..

it's old.. enough said...

oh...and I need a beer... thanks Dean.. LOL

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CPicard wrote:

Dean, for the first time in many years, I suspect you of trolling.

But I could be wrong.

It would only be trolling if I believed anyone here was dumb enough to be provoked by it. 'Twas merely a humorous illustration of how pseudoscience can be used to twist any fact to make it fit a crazy idea.

What?

Dean, for the first time in many years, I suspect you of trolling.

But I could be wrong.

The question of why do the two different dating methods arrive at such widely differing results is more interesting for me. As we know dating of earth is quite difficult as this is normally done by plotting archaeological finds in the the strata layer in which they have been found, as this stolen graphic shows:

But as you can see, earth (i.e. that strata where life is known to exist) only occupies the first thirty inches of the outer lithosphere of the world. If we work on the principle that the world grows one inch per century, then this makes the earth extremely young (between zero and three thousand years old). Of course the impact of climate change on strata-chronology has yet to be determined but it is expected that the shrinkage caused by fossil fuel pollution is counteracted by the girth increases brought about by the western diet however, it is still estimated that this could produce a +100/-50% error in the estimation. Of course the earth layer is considerably younger than the underlying rock and magma layers but not as young the outer "vegetation" layer.

The alternative method that is based upon the bible code is to simply count the number of verses written in the old testament since creation and multiply that number by the total number of words in the new testament, which gives us an earth-age of 4.2billion years (which is of course preposterous).

Edited by Dean - January 19 2017 at 17:08

What?

Here in the not so great and not so white North, we call iced Earth the Arctic tundra, and we will until all the permafrost melts.

Man With Hat wrote:

I don't care how old it is, can I just have a new one?

No man, no way! It's not as disposable as the insignificant human life span.

Poll Question: Which figures come closest to your views on the age of the Earth?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
4.5 to 4.6 billion years old	27	[84.38%]
6000 to 10,000 years old	5	[15.63%]
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