[fishtank]

Artist's conception of a large asteroid hitting the earth

Image credit on webpage.

[knarf]

A VERY interesting line of thought I had never been induced to consider before.

[2banana]

It’s because we have daylight saving time.

[Red Badger]

All life on Earth is due to The Son......................

[MeganC]

I’ve never been able to understand why it’s so important to some people to know definitive dates on when God did things. All I know is that when I went to see the Grand Canyon and I sat there with my feet dangling 1800 feet above the next solid thing it amazed me that God started His work billions of years ago with that very moment in mind. He did it for me. He created that moment to reveal His Majesty and Glory to me.

That He did it in His time and not in ours is His business.

So if the universe is 1 trillion years old, a few billion, or whatever it makes no difference to my faith so why is it that it seems that some people can’t believe in God if He didn’t create the earth less than 10,000 years ago?

That’s not much of a faith.

[onedoug]

I didn’t see where the guy offered a different theory. Maybe I missed it.

[JimSEA]

A work in progress. This link summarizes a lot of current thinking on your subject. I would favor in my very amateurish way, the mass loss of the early sun. In short, it never was that dim and the sun has been losing mass to compensate. See the math summary at the source. There is geological evidence that both the Earth and Mars have had liquid water at early points in their history.