How Old Do You The Earth Is?

[Hollie]

I stipulate that much of early Genesis happened in "days". If you have a point, make it.

sorry, I thought it was obvious......how do you measure how old the earth is from the text of the Bible when the text of the Bible doesn't tell us how long Adam and Eve were in Paradise before they were tossed out?......

It is obvious. We have the means and methods of science to measure the age of the planet. Ancient books of tales and fables (where angry gawds condemn all humanity for fruit theft), are not reliable for discerning fact from fiction.

Science is among the youngest of human endeavors, and yet has achieved things no previous discipline has approached. It has fed the hungry, cured disease, created technology that four generations ago would have been unimaginable. It has literally changed our world, while religions have done little more than churn human misfortune in a static embrace of past error. Unlike all the philosophies and religions that came before it, science actually works.

I'm sorry you misunderstood the question.....feel free to try again.....
how do you measure how old the earth is from the text of the Bible.....

I'm sorry you're not able to address the salient points.

Yet another one of the difficulties faced by the hyper-religious. Absurdities are the built in “loopholes” that apologists insert for the purpose of getting away with the many “incompatibilities” between the bibles and modern science. Where the scientific absurdities and "miracles” of the bibles generally depend on creative flights of reinterpreted fancy, the gross scientific errors of the bibles are expressed in clear and direct language. They are so obvious, that apologists have been forced to create the “loophole” of “allegorical language” in the attempt to escape them.

One of the profound difficulties religious people have with reality in general and science in particular is that they are more complex than “yes or no.” The universe does not consist of ideals and opposites, but instead of continua along dimensions with multiple (often infinite) possible options. Yes… it is one of the rude awakenings to the religious that we live in a Darwinian world, not a Platonic one.

Get real! Almighty God is awesome far beyond human understanding. God says he is the Alpha and Omega=the beginning and the end. God is outside time God says a thousand years is like a day to Him and a day like a thousand years.

None of the gods have said any such thing.

LOL! There is no GOD but Almighty God all the others are false gods most demon inspired.

 

[Hollie]

I stipulate that much of early Genesis happened in "days". If you have a point, make it.

sorry, I thought it was obvious......how do you measure how old the earth is from the text of the Bible when the text of the Bible doesn't tell us how long Adam and Eve were in Paradise before they were tossed out?......

It is obvious. We have the means and methods of science to measure the age of the planet. Ancient books of tales and fables (where angry gawds condemn all humanity for fruit theft), are not reliable for discerning fact from fiction.

Science is among the youngest of human endeavors, and yet has achieved things no previous discipline has approached. It has fed the hungry, cured disease, created technology that four generations ago would have been unimaginable. It has literally changed our world, while religions have done little more than churn human misfortune in a static embrace of past error. Unlike all the philosophies and religions that came before it, science actually works.

I'm sorry you misunderstood the question.....feel free to try again.....
how do you measure how old the earth is from the text of the Bible.....

I'm sorry you're not able to address the salient points.

Yet another one of the difficulties faced by the hyper-religious. Absurdities are the built in “loopholes” that apologists insert for the purpose of getting away with the many “incompatibilities” between the bibles and modern science. Where the scientific absurdities and "miracles” of the bibles generally depend on creative flights of reinterpreted fancy, the gross scientific errors of the bibles are expressed in clear and direct language. They are so obvious, that apologists have been forced to create the “loophole” of “allegorical language” in the attempt to escape them.

One of the profound difficulties religious people have with reality in general and science in particular is that they are more complex than “yes or no.” The universe does not consist of ideals and opposites, but instead of continua along dimensions with multiple (often infinite) possible options. Yes… it is one of the rude awakenings to the religious that we live in a Darwinian world, not a Platonic one.

Get real! Almighty God is awesome far beyond human understanding. God says he is the Alpha and Omega=the beginning and the end. God is outside time God says a thousand years is like a day to Him and a day like a thousand years.

None of the gods have said any such thing.

LOL! There is no GOD but Almighty God all the others are false gods most demon inspired.

Substitute Easter Bunny in place of god.

Thats a good fellow.

 

[AtheistBuddah]

I stipulate that much of early Genesis happened in "days". If you have a point, make it.

sorry, I thought it was obvious......how do you measure how old the earth is from the text of the Bible when the text of the Bible doesn't tell us how long Adam and Eve were in Paradise before they were tossed out?......

It is obvious. We have the means and methods of science to measure the age of the planet. Ancient books of tales and fables (where angry gawds condemn all humanity for fruit theft), are not reliable for discerning fact from fiction.

Science is among the youngest of human endeavors, and yet has achieved things no previous discipline has approached. It has fed the hungry, cured disease, created technology that four generations ago would have been unimaginable. It has literally changed our world, while religions have done little more than churn human misfortune in a static embrace of past error. Unlike all the philosophies and religions that came before it, science actually works.

I'm sorry you misunderstood the question.....feel free to try again.....
how do you measure how old the earth is from the text of the Bible.....

I'm sorry you're not able to address the salient points.

Yet another one of the difficulties faced by the hyper-religious. Absurdities are the built in “loopholes” that apologists insert for the purpose of getting away with the many “incompatibilities” between the bibles and modern science. Where the scientific absurdities and "miracles” of the bibles generally depend on creative flights of reinterpreted fancy, the gross scientific errors of the bibles are expressed in clear and direct language. They are so obvious, that apologists have been forced to create the “loophole” of “allegorical language” in the attempt to escape them.

One of the profound difficulties religious people have with reality in general and science in particular is that they are more complex than “yes or no.” The universe does not consist of ideals and opposites, but instead of continua along dimensions with multiple (often infinite) possible options. Yes… it is one of the rude awakenings to the religious that we live in a Darwinian world, not a Platonic one.

Get real! Almighty God is awesome far beyond human understanding. God says he is the Alpha and Omega=the beginning and the end. God is outside time God says a thousand years is like a day to Him and a day like a thousand years.

You gave yourself away with that little equals sign there Gismo. You might as well just admit that it's you.

 

[Vandalshandle]

"The age of earth is "irrelevant" why not ask the most important question = are you living your life as a son of God or a son of satan?Where will you be in eternity? With God family and friends or the eternal lake of fire? Chose today!"
Samual

Tell me where Jerry Falwell went. Then, I will decide.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Nailed him on what? Your comment wasn't accurate. He HAD considered extraterrestrial sources.

Exact quote: "(T)he amount of actually static. Changes location and form, but it never disappears, and short of asteroids bringing more, no new water is arriving."

Sorry, but that is wrong. For one thing, barren rocks, AKA asteroids, do not bring water to the Earth, comets do.

Now that that nonsense is out of the way, ultraviolet radiation causes water vapor to split into the component atom of hydrogen and oxygen, and the hydrogen will then escape from the Earth's atmosphere into space.

In other words, Delta displayed his ignorance in multiple ways, and you attempted to defend him because you are just as ignorant as he is.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Sure you did!

Really? I bet you can't find me saying that.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

QW's reading comprehension/grossly inflated ego problems quite often result in him/her nailing him/herself to the wall.

I said that he was wrong, I was right because he is wrong.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Yes, I think you did. Can you show me a clip of a confirmed atheist saying anything remotely close to "I believe that the Earth is only about 6,000 years old" I doubt that you can.

How would I confirm that someone is an atheist? Why does it have to be a clip?

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Because I don't believe Adam and Eve lived for billions of years, as radiometric dating tells us. Nothing in the fossil record indicates any species living that long.

There is no way to tell from any known technique what the lifespan of a fossilized creature was.

Want to try to look stupid in another way?

 

[Quantum Windbag]

It is obvious. We have the means and methods of science to measure the age of the planet. Ancient books of tales and fables (where angry gawds condemn all humanity for fruit theft), are not reliable for discerning fact from fiction.

Science is among the youngest of human endeavors, and yet has achieved things no previous discipline has approached. It has fed the hungry, cured disease, created technology that four generations ago would have been unimaginable. It has literally changed our world, while religions have done little more than churn human misfortune in a static embrace of past error. Unlike all the philosophies and religions that came before it, science actually works.

Damn, that was stupid.

Science has been around since the first human being tamed fire.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Man must exclude the existence of an all powerful God in order to accept billions and billions of years

Why?

 

[percysunshine]

Sharks are an old species.

So are cockroaches.

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[Quantum Windbag]

None of the gods have said any such thing.

None of them? Have you met every single god in the entire multiverse? If not, how can you make that claim?

 

[AtheistBuddah]

Yes, I think you did. Can you show me a clip of a confirmed atheist saying anything remotely close to "I believe that the Earth is only about 6,000 years old" I doubt that you can.

How would I confirm that someone is an atheist? Why does it have to be a clip?

Well any quote of that person saying they were atheist or saying that they don't think there is a God would be a good start.

And it doesn't have to be a clip in all honesty a written quote would do so long as you could provide a trusted source, like a written interview in a news article or something.

 

[AtheistBuddah]

Man must exclude the existence of an all powerful God in order to accept billions and billions of years

Why?

Well in the case of the Christian God of the Bible it is simply that the evidence in the Bible in regards to the age of the Earth as well as many other things proven by science, starkly contradicts billions and billions of years. Obviously both can't be true so you then have to exclude one to accept the other you can't have them both. This isn't to say that billions and billions of years means that there is no God at all it just wouldn't be the one described in Abrahamic religion.

 

[Two Thumbs]

Like really really old and stuff.

but I love a good and useless troll thread, so I'm posting some non-sense so I can get a laugh later.

T

Like really really old and stuff.

but I love a good and useless troll thread, so I'm posting some non-sense so I can get a laugh later.

The age of earth is "irrelevant" why not ask the most important question = are you living your life as a son of God or a son of satan?Where will you be in eternity? With God family and friends or the eternal lake of fire? Chose today!

dood, yer awesome.

I wouldn't worship a god that would torture me for all eternity for not following all his rules. no sane person would

 

[AtheistBuddah]

Damn, that was stupid.

Science has been around since the first human being tamed fire.

None of them? Have you met every single god in the entire multiverse? If not, how can you make that claim?

Alright I take issue with both of these statements.

To the first statement: She clearly was referring to the institution of modern science as we know it and not every single discovery made by man.

To the second: She was again, obviously referring to the religious texts that have been written by man over the centuries claiming to speak for these Gods. So she was saying that there is no written account of any God saying any such thing.

You clearly have nothing to come back at her with here so you are just picking apart her sentences in any way you can to try and make her argument seem stupid therefore making yours seem superior by default. It's a time honored example of what people like you do when they can't refute an argument on its actual merits and it's rather sad to be honest.

 

[Agit8r]

Out here in the west we have geographic features like Dry Falls and the Columbia River Gorge that are obviously much older than the age attributed by the Hebrew Creation Myth. It is probably why there are fewer believers in Hebrew Mythology here than in the rest of the country.

 

[AtheistBuddah]

Out here in the west we have geographic features like Dry Falls and the Columbia River Gorge that are obviously much older than the age attributed by the Hebrew Creation Myth. It is probably why there are fewer believers in Hebrew Mythology here than in the rest of the country.

I dunno about that. Last time I checked, Texas was considered out west and that place is fully of ignorant Christian right wingers.

 

[orogenicman]

I stipulate that much of early Genesis happened in "days". If you have a point, make it.

sorry, I thought it was obvious......how do you measure how old the earth is from the text of the Bible when the text of the Bible doesn't tell us how long Adam and Eve were in Paradise before they were tossed out?......

It is obvious. We have the means and methods of science to measure the age of the planet. Ancient books of tales and fables (where angry gawds condemn all humanity for fruit theft), are not reliable for discerning fact from fiction.

Science is among the youngest of human endeavors, and yet has achieved things no previous discipline has approached. It has fed the hungry, cured disease, created technology that four generations ago would have been unimaginable. It has literally changed our world, while religions have done little more than churn human misfortune in a static embrace of past error. Unlike all the philosophies and religions that came before it, science actually works.

I'm sorry you misunderstood the question.....feel free to try again.....
how do you measure how old the earth is from the text of the Bible.....

I'm sorry you're not able to address the salient points.

Yet another one of the difficulties faced by the hyper-religious. Absurdities are the built in “loopholes” that apologists insert for the purpose of getting away with the many “incompatibilities” between the bibles and modern science. Where the scientific absurdities and "miracles” of the bibles generally depend on creative flights of reinterpreted fancy, the gross scientific errors of the bibles are expressed in clear and direct language. They are so obvious, that apologists have been forced to create the “loophole” of “allegorical language” in the attempt to escape them.

One of the profound difficulties religious people have with reality in general and science in particular is that they are more complex than “yes or no.” The universe does not consist of ideals and opposites, but instead of continua along dimensions with multiple (often infinite) possible options. Yes… it is one of the rude awakenings to the religious that we live in a Darwinian world, not a Platonic one.

Get real! Almighty God is awesome far beyond human understanding. God says he is the Alpha and Omega=the beginning and the end. God is outside time God says a thousand years is like a day to Him and a day like a thousand years.

Perhaps beyond your understanding. For many of the rest of us, not so much.