[Names Ash Housewares]

4.567 billion years (years based on the current present rotation rate) this of course was far different in the past.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_Earth

Based on extensive and detailed scientific evidence, geologists have determined the age of the Earth to be around 4.567 billion years (4.567×109 years). This age represents a compromise between the oldest-known terrestrial minerals – small crystals of zircon from the Jack Hills of Western Australia – and astronomers' and planetologists' determinations of the age of the solar system based in part on radiometric age dating of meteorite material and lunar samples.

The radiometric age dating evidence from the zircons further confirms that the Earth is at least 4.404 billion years old. Comparing the mass and luminosity of the Sun to the multitudes of other stars, it appears that the solar system cannot be much older than those rocks. Ca-Al-rich inclusions (inclusions rich in calcium and aluminium) – the oldest known solid constituents within meteorites which are formed within the solar system – are 4.567 billion years old, giving an age for the solar system and an upper limit for the age of the Earth. It is assumed that the accretion of the Earth began soon after the formation of the Ca-Al-rich inclusions and the meteorites. Since the accretion time of the Earth is not exactly known yet, and the predictions from different accretion models vary between several millions up to about 100 million years, the exact age of the Earth is difficult to define.

In the centuries preceding the scientific revolution, the age of the Earth was determined from the accounts of creation by religious authority. Today some religious groups continue to accept only theological accounts regarding the age of the earth, rejecting scientific evidence which contradicts their beliefs.

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However no matter how much evidence or theory is presented, for some, it is "turtles all the way down".
To each his own.



"A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the Earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the centre of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy.
"At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise."
"The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?"
"You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down."

[Psycho_Bunny]

heh.....heheheheheheheheh

[Toby06]

Happy birthday, Earth - Creation occurred 6,010 years

LOL!

[Alter Kaker]

This photograph is of the neolithic megalith at Nabta, Egypt, a Stonehenge-like observatory built, um, 1000 years before the creation of the universe. Bishop Ussher, please come to the front desk...

[Zionist Conspirator]

You know, here I've been depressed about liberals who think that the Bible and creation are chr*stian (and so always attack chr*stianity) when they are to the contrary quite Jewish. Now we have the opposite problem: chr*stians who insist on ignoring the plain teaching of Jewish traditional chronology in order to go off calculating things on their own.

This is the 5767th year of human history. The anniversary of Creation Week each year runs from 25 'Elul (the anniversary of Day One) to 2 Tishrei (the anniversary of the first Shabbat). This is the beginning of the chronology of which we are now in the 5767th year, so why does anyone need to be trying to "discover" what is already known?

There are a few complications about whether the first year was 0, 1, or 2, but that is explained here (a vanity I posted on this topic last spring).

Now I'd better get out of here. I know that otherwise the carping between stupid atheists who think Biblical chronology was invented by chr*stians and ignorant chr*stians who can't seem to think to ask the people who know most about the subject for information will drive me to distraction.

[Coyoteman]

Of course, there will be those who disagree with Ussher's calculations of time – especially evolutionists who need billions of years to explain their theory of how life sprang from non-life and mutated from one-celled animals into human beings.

Evolutionists use the old earth dating framework because that is what all of the scientific evidence supports.

The young earth framework is not supported by scientific evidence.

[Glenn]

Ann would laugh her butt off at this.

[Vaquero]

Blessed By His Noodly Appendage.

[Radix]

Sixty five bucks is a bit much for any book.

Can one get it w/out all the glazed paper stuff? I'd like to just read the thing while I'm not into collecting future museum pieces.

[Vaquero]

a good laugh was had by all.....

[Continental Soldier]

"Of course there will be those who disagree." Well, DUH!--Do you think so?! :)

[ml1954]

This thread should be in the Religion Forum.

[ml1954]

Science Ping

[Dog Gone]

We can document the first Egyptians in the Nile River Valley at 3500 B.C. This is when Adam of Adam and Eve fame was merely middle aged, since he reportedly lived to be 930 years old.

And strangely enough, they had already completed the great pyramids of Giza before the 6010 year timeline allows for Noah's Flood. Somehow they managed to survive and flourish during the Flood and continue their amazing civilization.

I'm guessing there is no explanation for this in this book.

[G8 Diplomat]

the world was created Oct. 23, 4004 B.C. – making it 6,010 yesterday.

This is a joke, right? There are paleontological specimens that are carbon dated to be millions of years old!

[Ichneumon]

How old is the world? Most people would say: "Nobody knows."

No, not "most", the only people who would say that would be those who are ignorant of the vast amount of independent cross-confirming evidence that indicates it's about 4.6 billion years old.

[SamAdams76]

When we invent the Time Machine, what happens if we set the dial too far back? What if we went back in time before there was time? My brain is tired just thinking about it.

I'm thinking all of us are here because our ancestors came from the future and couldn't get back. This means that all of us are related and that our descendants will evenually meet up with our ancestors. Hopefully our descendants can keep our ancestors from messing with time machines so we don't begin the vicious circle yet again.

[Berosus]

I got "The Annals of the World" as a birthday present last year, and to my surprise, one of the maps on the CD was mine! It was this one, which I made in 1997 to show how the Middle East looked in 300 B.C.

I believe it was included to show the four the four kingdoms that Alexander's empire broke up into, to fulfill a prophecy in Daniel 8. Well, to make a long story short, I managed to track down the programmer responsible, and persuaded him to give me credit in the next edition of the work (I wasn't in it for the money, since we're both creationists).

[Logic n' Reason]

Certainly one "man's" opinion anyway.

[DoctorMichael]

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