Philosophically speaking the Earth is reborn every time a new life is born. The actual years are unknown because the early Earth was either not fully formed or hot and molten.I was just wondering because we're in the year 2020,.. but isn't that just counting the years after Jesus was born?
The earth is about 4.5 billion years old .
The Earth can not be aged by any dating technique because the early Earth was molten and being constantly recycled. One would think that someone related to Princeton would know thisThe age of the earth (about 4.5 billion years) is a very well established known. An excellent article explaining, from an evangelical Christian perspective, the source of this knowledge can be found here:
Radiometric Dating
Again there is no way to confirm this as it may have taken that long for the solar system to form before the debris settled, furthermore the early Earth was molten and being recycled so dating such material is not possible. It should also be noted that unless matter was actually created that all matter in some form is as old as the universe itself. However all is speculative, except to those who know everything 4 sureThe earth & solar system as well is 4.5 GA (billion years old).
LOL did the Earth stop recycling itself in the molten state for a million years or two billion. Thus cooling rates are irrelevant in determining the true age of the Earth which is deduced only from the oldest known and exposed rocksActually they use cooling rates to determine how long something molten would stay hot . Lord Kelvin did that in the 19 th century and only got the wrong answer because he didn’t know about radioactive heating!
You apparently do not understand that the early Earth was fully molten and that the cooled rock can only be dated to the cooling time. You also should know that all magma existed before it cooled for how many millions or billions of years that the magma existed as magma is unknownYou do know that the earth has a crust of cooled solid rock, right ? The earth has cooled enough to form that . Take up your argument with the late Lord Kelvin
You apparently do not understand that the early Earth was fully molten and that the cooled rock can only be dated to the cooling time. You also should know that all magma existed before it cooled for how many millions or billions of years that the magma existed as magma is unknown
Seems logical until one understands that the meteorites had to come from somewhere that existed prior to the solar system. So when you look at the question from a larger perspective your assertation falls apart.I think it's fair to say that, if we think of every single molecule that makes up earth, we could recognize that such molecules are far older than 4.5 billion years.
However, if we think of earth as an objects which orbits the sun, meteorites also orbit the Sun and are trapped in our solar system. We live in a collective system of objects that orbit the sun. Meteorites do not have plate tectonics and magnetic convection, So they won't be recycled in the same way that Earth is. And meteorites tend to have ages around 4.5 billion years old. So if we consider the idea that Earth itself started out as an object much like a meteorite, then we could come to understand that the Earth is probably in this ballpark of the same age as these other objects in our solar system.
https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/geotime/age.html#:~:text=There are more than 70,and 4.58 billion years ago.
Before the solar system formed, we could say that Earth existed in the form of pieces that had not yet coalesced that perhaps came from other bodies of rock or meteorites. But people usually don't refer to Earth in that sense but rather refer to Earth as an object that orbits the Sun and is part of our solar system.
If we wanted to talk about the molecules of Earth, we could say that the atoms that make up Earth are over 13 billion years old, if we really wanted to. But that's just not what people typically consider to be "earth".
Seems logical until one understands that the meteorites had to come from somewhere that existed prior to the solar system. So when you look at the question from a larger perspective your assertation falls apart.
Why?
Because the solar system is believed to have been created from stellar debris that obviously existed before the solar system, so one would expect a radically older age and not the same age as the Earth itself. Or do you believe that rocks just appeared 4.5 billion years ago?
The Earth can not be aged by any dating technique because the early Earth was molten and being constantly recycled. One would think that someone related to Princeton would know this
God's word declares to His children, that this entire realm in which we live, yes we live in a created realm of existence, came to be fully functional in the span of 6 rotations of the earth upon its axis. God's word also declares to us that on the sixth of those days, He created Adam.
You are correct. The earth may be millions of years old. If you take the literal generations from Adam to now, the earth works out to be about 6,000 years old. However, there is a school of thought that there was a creation prior to Adam and it also was destroyed by flood by God's judgement. If that is so, (the Genesis account permits this view) the earth is much older. How old exactly is up for debate. For example, the moon is slowly moving away from the earth. If the earth was billions of years old, we would not have a moon.I was just wondering because we're in the year 2020,.. but isn't that just counting the years after Jesus was born?
Man is also prone to making mistakes. No one can assume anything about the age of the earth. How come we still have a moon? It's moving further away from the earth. It would be long gone by now if the earth was that old.The earth is over 4.46 Billion years old. Mankind only recently began recording dates.
Man is also prone to making mistakes. No one can assume anything about the age of the earth. How come we still have a moon? It's moving further away from the earth. It would be long gone by now if the earth was that old.
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