How Old is the Earth?

[AV1611VET]

Wouldn’t have “the laws of physics” come later after things were “made”?

Yup.

That's my point.

 

[dlamberth]

When's the last time you browsed a college bookstore?

It's been a while, but in no way did it ever compare to the massive amount of stuff that AiG is pushing on their site...Not even close.

 

[Astrid]

If you were to examine the historical evidence, you would find that many great floods have happened all over the world and throughout human history; in fact, floods are probably the commonest of natural disasters. However, all of them were local events, and they happened at different times.

The fact is that we need water to live, and therefore human settlements have grown up around sources of fresh water, such as lakes and the flood plains of rivers. The disadvantage of these sites is that they are apt to flood when there is heavy rain or when the snow melts in the local mountains. We all know how stories of extraordinary events grow in the telling, and the same is true of natural disasters such as floods.

As for 'flood geology', that is, the belief that all the sedimentary rocks, with their fossils, from the Precambrian to the Holocene, were deposited by a single catastrophic flood, there is no evidence for it. If you care to read geology books, or to look at rock outcrops, you will find that all the evidence shows that sedimentary rocks were deposited at different times and in different environments, everywhere from the deep ocean to river deltas and deserts. As a specific point, for thick sedimentary sequences to be deposited on the sea floor, there must have been exposed land to be eroded, so the mere existence of such sedimentary sequence shows that there was never a time when the whole Earth was covered by water.

It's not so much "no evidence of"
that " flood" geology, but the most
clear, varied, abundant and obvious disproof.

 

[sjastro]

You never answered my question. Aren’t you assuming that at some point there was no decay in these materials?

I thought I answered your question when I told you radioactive decay is due to an excess of protons and neutrons in the nucleus.
Radioactive materials are generally formed when a stable or nuclei with a long half life captures a neutron resulting in a shorter half life.

Consider the following reaction.

²³⁸U +n → ²³⁹U → ²³⁹Np + β⁻ → ²³⁹Pu → U²³⁵+ α

²³⁸U (uranium) which has a half life of 4.5 billion years captures a neutron n to form the unstable ²³⁹U which has a half life of 23.47 minutes.
²³⁹U decays into ²³⁹Np (neptunium) and a β⁻ particle.
²³⁹Np is also unstable with a half life of 2.36 days and decays into ²³⁹Pu (plutonium).

This leads me to the question which you have refused to answer; the final reaction in the decay of ²³⁹Pu → U²³⁵+ α has a half life of 24,110 years, so where has all the ²³⁹Pu gone if the earth and universe is only 6000 years old?
The answer there was very little ²³⁹Pu to start with doesn’t cut it as the progenitor ²³⁸U is fairly abundant in the earth’s crust compared to the trace amounts of naturally occurring ²³⁹Pu.

 

[BurningBush84]

Let's say the earth is less than 11,000 years old,, what would you say to God on Judgement Day if he asked you why you doubted his Word ???

 

[AV1611VET]

It's been a while, but in no way did it ever compare to the massive amount of stuff that AiG is pushing on their site...Not even close.

You never bought a $400.00 science book?

 

[dlamberth]

You never bought a $400.00 science book?

If it's only books that AiG offered, that's one thing. But they have an incredible amount of all kinds of stuff to get your money. Have you checked out their web site?

Oh, by the way, it was computer science books that I was spending the big bucks for.

 

[AV1611VET]

If it's only books that AiG offered, that's one thing. But they have an incredible amount of all kinds of stuff to get your money. Have you checked out their web site?

That's voluntary.

College science book is mandatory.

Oh, by the way, it was computer science books that I was spending the big bucks for.

Okay.

Here's yesterday's information.

 

[Astrid]

Let's say the earth is less than 11,000 years old,, what would you say to God on Judgement Day if he asked you why you doubted his Word ???

More amusing would be your finding out you
got it backwards.
Just apologizing to all the ancestors you denied
would keep you humble for a very long time.

 

[BNR32FAN]

This leads me to the question which you have refused to answer; the final reaction in the decay of ²³⁹Pu → U²³⁵+ α has a half life of 24,110 years, so where has all the ²³⁹Pu gone if the earth and universe is only 6000 years old?
The answer there was very little ²³⁹Pu to start with doesn’t cut it as the progenitor ²³⁸U is fairly abundant in the earth’s crust compared to the trace amounts of naturally occurring ²³⁹Pu.

I apologize I haven’t seen this question and I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. I don’t recall seeing this question in your previous posts. Can you put this into laymen’s terms because I don’t understand it. I’m a truck driver not a chemist or an astrophysics.

 

[dlamberth]

Let's say the earth is less than 11,000 years old,, what would you say to God on Judgement Day if he asked you why you doubted his Word ???

Nowhere in the Bible does God give the age of the Earth.

 

[BurningBush84]

More amusing would be your finding out you
got it backwards.
Just apologizing to all the ancestors you denied
would keep you humble for a very long time.

Nowhere in the Bible does God give the age of the Earth.

No where in the Bible does it say God created the earth. See , I can do it too, doesn't mean its true.

 

[dlamberth]

That's voluntary.

College science book is mandatory.



Okay.

Here's yesterday's information.

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I'm not understanding how education can be compared to a profiteer as if they are the same.

 

[RDKirk]

No where in the Bible does it say God created the earth. See , I can do it too, doesn't mean its true.

Colossians 1.

 

[AV1611VET]

Nowhere in the Bible does God give the age of the Earth.

This is true.

But It does say the earth was created old.

2 Peter 3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

And however old it is, it has only been in existence since 4004 BC.

 

[RDKirk]

Let's say the earth is less than 11,000 years old,, what would you say to God on Judgement Day if he asked you why you doubted his Word ???

LOL, of the million things I probably have wrong, that would not be #1.

I suspect there won't be any questions asked on Judgment Day, by either God or men because...all will be revealed.

"Martha, Martha," the Lord answered, "you are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her."

What's more important is that I have the Better Thing right.

 

[AV1611VET]

I'm not understanding how education can be compared to a profiteer as if they are the same.

Didn't you say this?

If it's only books that AiG offered, that's one thing. But they have an incredible amount of all kinds of stuff to get your money.

If they "got our money," it's because we voluntarily bought something from them.

I don't know if you're bragging, complaining, or jealous.

And for the record, how much of YOUR MONEY do they have?

You can go to Youtube and see all the atheists who visit the Ark Park to make videos.

Are you against capitalism or something?

 

[BNR32FAN]

Nowhere in the Bible does God give the age of the Earth.

No but He does give a timeline from Adam to Jesus which allows us to calculate how old the earth is based on the scriptures.

 

[BurningBush84]

Colossians 1.

Well ya know the Bible was written to long ago it's probably changed so much , we can't trust what if says , I'm sure it's mostly mis/disinformation. And we surely can't trust Genesis 1

 

[dlamberth]

No but He does give a timeline from Adam to Jesus which allows us to calculate how old the earth is based on the scriptures.

Human Beings did that calculation, not God. Regardless, it's not a question that would be asked by God.