When ever I hear someone saying that something is millions of years old I always wonder how they know that their calculation is correct. To me, that’s an act of faith.
I agree with you. Nobody really knows. Except God. So I just let him worry about it.
The origin of the Earth is really none of my business. How I live while on the Earth is should be my focus.
Finally a voice of reason on this thread!
[[When ever I hear someone saying that something is millions of years old I always wonder how they know that their calculation is correct. To me, that’s an act of faith.]]
They don’t know- they simply insist- their calculations are FULL of problems, but by golly- ‘it’s science’ and so their conclusions can’t be questioned or exposed- if one does so, they are then ‘anti-science’. I have a wholel ist of links showing hte problems with each and every one of hte dating methods used to calculate ages past 5000- You are correct- it is a pure act of faith to beleive in their asusmption driven calculating methods which extend beyond actual testable, verifiable ages up to 5000 years- beyond that the methods rely on pure assumptions and outright guesses-
Look, I believe the Sacred Scriptures are completely infallible, but how do you know that *your* calculations are correct? The Bible nowhere gives an exact age of the earth. We can arrive at one only by inferring a figure by tallying up lifespans and generations, and that's not an exact science. It's not clear whether the descendants are all strictly "offspring of" or merely "descendants of"--and some of the geneologies may be incomplete. Plus the Septuagint, Masoretic text, and Peshitta all give different figures, so we come up with widely varying ages of the earth.
I don't think that many people fully appreciate the difficulties of exegesis here.