I can confirm with certainty that it is older than me.
The rest is hearsay and random theorizing.
My belief that the Earth, the Solar System, and the Universe are all billions of years old in no way diminishes my complete faith and trust in God. I don’t need science to prove or support my faith in any way.
I also don’t seek to change anyone else’s opinion or belief on the issue.
Peach
Older than Earth Dirt
Young! Heck, I remember when there WAS no universe.
It was here when I got here...................
It will be even older then.
Oh please
Balderdascious drivel. Unexpurgated claptrap.
Good grief - a simple Google search the quoted scientist, Stevenson, will lead to an article indicating that the current theories on the Earth’s magnetic field easily explain it’s generation for at least the last billion years. See http://thescienceexplorer.com/universe/earth-s-magnetic-field-may-be-due-magnesium-not-radioactive-decay
Additional searches will yield reasonable explanations, as well as experimental validation, of molten metal convection currents generating magnetic fields - exactly as is theorized for the generation of the Earth’s magnetic field. See https://physics.aps.org/story/v5/st20
Got to have billions of years to explain inorganic dirt randomly evolving all the way to human beings, though billions of years is still completely insufficient to make it work statistically, even if you assume the process is possible to begin with.
However, billions of years sounds impressive enough to the rubes who won’t bother to work out all the inconvenient mathematics and find out where the problems lie.
**YAWN**
There are very simple geologic formations that demonstrate the earth is more than 6,000 years old.
The Grand Canyon could not possibly have formed in 6,000 years of erosion. It is just not possible to anyone with a scientific mind. That is just one example.
The Appalachian Mountains are a very low mountain range because they have been eroding for millions of years.
The sandstone buttes of Monument Valley took millions of years to form by everything around them eroding away and being carried down to the ocean.
I like to think I am as passionate a Christian as the next guy, but it doesn’t mean I have to abandon scientific thinking just because the Old Testament cannot be reconciled against science. Myths are not intended to be taken literally, but for some reason, there is just a percentage of people who do take them literally, word for word.