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Poll: How Old Is The Earth?

Discussion in 'Creation vs. Evolution' started by Baptist Believer, Aug 17, 2018.

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How old is the earth? Please select the closest answer or select "Other" and explain in the thread.

  1. Billions of years old

    7 vote(s)
    16.7%

  2. Millions of years old

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%

  3. Less than 10,000 years old

    11 vote(s)
    26.2%

  4. About 6,000 years old

    13 vote(s)
    31.0%

  5. Less than 6,000 years old

    1 vote(s)
    2.4%

  6. I have no idea how old the earth may be

    4 vote(s)
    9.5%

  7. The earth was created on the same day as humankind

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%

  8. The earth is approximately 144 hours older than the first humans

    3 vote(s)
    7.1%

  9. The earth is an indeterminate age older than terrestrial life (aka, the Gap Theory)

    4 vote(s)
    9.5%

  10. Other

    3 vote(s)
    7.1%
Multiple votes are allowed.
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  1. Reformed

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    I am a young earth guy, but I do not want to commit to 6,000 years.
     
    #21 Reformed, Oct 10, 2018
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    7 yom's and a few thousand years
     
    #22 loDebar, Oct 10, 2018
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    I’d guess between 6,000-10,000 years old.
     
    #23 SovereignGrace, Oct 11, 2018
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    I don't know, but it would appear to be in the billions.:Wink
     
    #24 RighteousnessTemperance&, Oct 11, 2018
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    The observable universe seems to have an age of about 13.7 billion years. The solar system seems to have Solidified some 4.5 billion years ago. God further formed the earth in those 6 earth days, placing Adam and Eve in that garden on that sixth day. And based upon the dating of the common fossil record on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, those 6 days and the flood would have taken place about some 300 million years ago.
     
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    6 yoms.,, we do not know if it was days or ages
     
    #26 loDebar, Oct 13, 2018
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    ". . . For [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them [is], and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. . . ." -- Exodus 20:8-11?
     
    #27 37818, Oct 13, 2018
  8. loDebar

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    Hebrew is yom the same word for day, daylight, period of time, even age
     
    #28 loDebar, Oct 14, 2018
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    How does that change the usage of the meaning in Exodus 20:11 in regards to the 6 day creation account?
     
    #29 37818, Oct 14, 2018
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    If this is the same word, there is no change
     
    #30 loDebar, Oct 14, 2018
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    Then the word refers to an earth day in the 6 days in Genesis one based on Exodus 20:11, right?
     
    #31 37818, Oct 14, 2018
  12. HankD

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    Yes.
     
    #32 HankD, Oct 14, 2018
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  13. Baptist Believer

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    No. That's a fallacy. The meaning of words, especially in a language like Hebrew, is closely tied to context.
     
    #33 Baptist Believer, Oct 14, 2018
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    It’s a conundrum. The world is older than me, but I am older than dirt.
     
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    We do not know we only know yom
     
    #35 loDebar, Oct 14, 2018
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    The verb "to give" has over 100 different translations in the KJV. Large context.

    You do not know the context to preserve for yom
     
    #36 loDebar, Oct 14, 2018
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    Your claim of a fallacy makes no sense.
    Context? Yes. Genesis 1:3-31, Genesis 2:1-3 which Exodus 20:11 argues earth days as the context explicitly implies. Prove otherwise.
     
    #37 37818, Oct 14, 2018
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    Well you can speak for yourself. I know believers are divided on this. The fact remains earth days are called a day. If that is not what is meant then how should it be translated to be true? The Sabbath argument of Exodus 20:3 refers to the 7 days in a week in Genesis 1:3-31.
     
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    You are correct. It's a 24 hour day - maybe sidereal for whatever it was at that time currently - 23 hours 56 minutes and 4.1 seconds. Maybe a few seconds shorter then because the earth is slowing on its axis (sorry flat earthers).
     
    #39 HankD, Oct 14, 2018
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    Several thousands of yeasrs old, but not millions, much less billion sof years old!
     
    #40 Yeshua1, Oct 15, 2018
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