How old do you suppose this planet really is?

[Puffnstuff]

You know the bible book of Genesis chapter one says that creation took place over 6 days and on the 7th God rested. The earth was created and then given form over several days and by the time the 6th day rolled around we had people, animals and foliage. I know that the furthest known galaxy is 13.7 billion lights years away hence it took at least that long for its light to reach us here.

So my question is simple. How old do you suppose this planet really is? If God created it did he work in some aging in the process as he was giving it form? Could the aging be enough to stabilize the land masses in order for people to safely inhabit the planet?

 

[IronWing]

Look, I'm going on vacation. I don't have time to rip your butthole so it doubles as a fire hydrant cozy. Why not just hook up with BD231 who's looking for a fvckbuddy and be done with it, okay?

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

I created the earth last Thursday so it's only a few days old.

 

[zinfamous]

well I can't really follow that.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

The Great Green Arkleseizure sneezed it out his nose 11 seconds ago and all your memories of Jesus riding a dinosaur have been implanted just to fuck with you.

 

[Ken g6]

How can a day refer to an Earth day when Earth didn't even exist until the third "day"? Earth forming ~5 billion Earth years ago makes sense to me.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

The Great Green Arkleseizure sneezed it out his nose 11 seconds ago and all your memories of Jesus riding a dinosaur have been implanted just to fuck with you.

Oh well that's just a bunch of bullshit.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Oh well that's just a bunch of bullshit.

I have a book that says it's true, therefore it's true.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

I have a book that says it's true, therefore it's true.

I know. I created that book last Thursday.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

I know. I created that book last Thursday.

The book said you'd lie about writing it.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

The book said you'd lie about writing it.

I know. That's what I made it to say.

 

[MovingTarget]

Off the top of my head? A few billion years. 4.5 sounds about right.

But yeah, even as a believer, the accounts in Genesis are mostly allegorical. They weren't meant to be science textbooks. Also, evolution is real, water is wet, and gravity is a harsh mistress.

 

[disappoint]

You know the bible book of Genesis chapter one says that creation took place over 6 days and on the 7th God rested. The earth was created and then given form over several days and by the time the 6th day rolled around we had people, animals and foliage. I know that the furthest known galaxy is 13.7 billion lights years away hence it took at least that long for its light to reach us here.

So my question is simple. How old do you suppose this planet really is? If God created it did he work in some aging in the process as he was giving it form? Could the aging be enough to stabilize the land masses in order for people to safely inhabit the planet?

Poor HR Puffnstuff. How much stuff do you have to puff to believe the fluff in that ancient book of violent stuff?

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

Poor HR Puffnstuff. How much stuff do you have to puff to believe the fluff in that ancient book of violent stuff?

Just enough.

 

[Humpy]

Hey OP, why don't you fuck off with the frauding religious bullshit?

I like your homosexually tinged bullying posts a lot better.

Thanks!

 

[WaTaGuMp]

The bible just proves how many religious fucking nut jobs are in the world.

 

[walrus]

Over 4 billion years

 

[SKORPI0]

http://www.universetoday.com/75805/how-old-is-the-earth/

4.54 Billion Years.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

http://www.universetoday.com/75805/how-old-is-the-earth/

4.54 Billion Years.

Mother Nature is a woman and might be lying about her age.

 

[Newbian]

At least we all agree that earth is flat...

 

[SSSnail]

Whatever book you're reading from, should have included killing nonbelievers, raping, pedophile and other bullshit in it so people can't dismiss it so easily.

 

[KeithTalent]

Baby jesus told me it just turned tree fiddy.

KT

 

[WaTaGuMp]

At least we all agree that earth is flat...

No one can dispute this, if you look out over the ocean you can see the edge.

 

[RandomWords]

I would say you can't really pinpoint the age of the earth... even scientists +/- a few... what millions? Of years... but I guess when you're in billions what is a few million huh.

The Bible version... who is to say... but time has no meaning to God (as said in the bible) so I'm guessing days is just used as a way to organize the events.. but that's my opinion.

However - from researching both sides of the topic I've learned it doesn't really matter how old the earth is or if the events in the bible happened or not...

As for the bible - if read in order of date each story is written and considering the time and culture it was written in it really isn't a violent book and is quite tame and reads similar to a history text book.. also.. 100% different from how churches portray it which is usually out of context and irrelevant to the subject matter they are preaching about.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

The Bible version... who is to say... but time has no meaning to God (as said in the bible) so I'm guessing days is just used as a way to organize the events.. but that's my opinion.

That's fine, you can spin the bible to make creation last as long as you want. Maybe a "day" is 80 bajillion years and maybe it's 17 seconds and if you take that part of the creation myth in a vacuum it can say anything you want it to say. But the people who wrote the fairy tales couldn't leave well enough alone and the bible goes on to create a pretty good timeline from the creation of life to modern day and that's where it all crashes down. Adam and Eve to us is about 6,000 or so years by biblical reckoning and those are real years, not nebulous "time has no meaning to God" years.