If the Earth is young, how young?

[Qun Mang]

Okay folks, I'm trying this again. PLEASE don't start discussing false doctrine- my last thread was deleted as a result. Matthitjah offered to clean it up and undelete it, but I wanted to save him time and repost it as a poll instead. If your answer is anything but 6,000 years or billions of years, could you justify your answer? Of course, 6,000 years comes directly from the geneologies in the Bible. However, some listed fathers and sons may actually be more distant relations, just as Joseph, adoptive father of Jesus, is referred to as the son of David by the angel who spoke to him even though he is really a distant descendant. As such, the age could be more than 6,000 years.

Billions of years also needs no explanation. Of course, believing in billions of years does NOT necessarily make you an evolutionist, but that sort of discussion would be for another thread (hint, hint ).

[nebula]

To be honest, Qun Mang - I am reluctant to give an age for the Earth.

I have reason to disbelieve the traditional 6000 year interpretation of Genesis.

But have the scientists gotten the 5 billion years correct? I don't know. They may have interpreted the evidence correctly . . . or they may not have.

How's that for an answer?

[Qun Mang]

Well, this is really supposed to be more of a question of how young the Earth is if you believe in a young Earth. I believe 6,000 years is the time that's most thrown out there, but I am interested to hear what others believe and why. I threw the standard 4 billion years as that is what many scientists believe as their dating techniques seem to show this, and so it wouldn't be fair to leave this option out. Myself, I am torn a bit. I lean toward the young Earth, but as to how young I'm not sure. 6,000 was really all I had heard until a friend of mine came up with a convincing argument for 11,000 years. Unfortunately he also believes that October 21(?), 2011 is the day of Christ's return. from the book from that "prophet" who already failed to come up with the right date once. However, this is another topic for a separate thread.

[SanDiegoCA]

Genesis 1:1 say In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Period. New Paragraph, Then Genesis go on to describe the process God used to made the Earth inhabitable for man. I do not take the seven day literally and try to attach a number , but symbolically as it fits in with the harmony of the bible pointing to the Christ and our salvation. Seven and ten representing perfect number in the bible.