Is the Earth 6,000 years old?

[tooblue]

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

I have no link, but tooblue does strike me as the type to believe the Earth to be 6,000 years old. That doesn't mean he does believe it, that is just the sense I have.

So, to put the matter directly, how old do you believe the Earth to be, tooblue?

Your perception of me is incorrect and indicative of you prejudices and not what I have said or done -- I am the personification of someone that strikes you as believing something unfathomable.

Go search and read my posts. The earth is certainly more than 6,000 years old.

[Cali Coug]

Originally Posted by tooblue

Your perception of me is incorrect and indicative of you prejudices and not what I have said or done -- I am the personification of someone that strikes you as believing something unfathomable.

Go search and read my posts. The earth is certainly more than 6,000 years old.

If so, then I apologize. How much older than 6,000 years?

[Indy Coug]

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

If so, then I apologize. How much older than 6,000 years?

Just answer "somewhere between 6,000 and 4.5 billion years" and be done with it.

[tooblue]

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

If so, then I apologize. How much older than 6,000 years?

I have no idea -- the earth is likely billions of years old.

[MikeWaters]

One thing I know, the number of years the earth has existed is well less than than the number of dollars that Obama will create in new deficits.

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

One thing I know, the number of years the earth has existed is well less than than the number of dollars that Obama will create in new deficits.

Don't go out on a limb with your predictions...

[Mormon Red Death]

Here is a question that I have about the "age of the earth"

When did it become "Earth"?

On the 7th day? always existed? Some point 4.5 billion years ago?

Couldn't someone make a claim that it didn't become earth until someone started recording its history as earth?

[ute4ever]

The problem with you telestial mortals is you are trying to debate this under the concept of measured time.

Moreover, under the calendar method, we don't know if Adam and Eve lived in the garden for 3 hours, 3 months, or 3 billion years.

Don't even try to question me. I'll take all of you heathen down.

[Indy Coug]

Originally Posted by ute4ever

The problem with you telestial mortals is you are trying to debate this under the concept of measured time.

Moreover, under the calendar method, we don't know if Adam and Eve lived in the garden for 3 hours, 3 months, or 3 billion years.

Don't even try to question me. I'll take all of you heathen down.

Has the passage of time always been constant?

[Sleeping in EQ]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

The reason I mention this is because I was on a science/nature oriented forum, and someone talks about the origins of insects millions of years ago, and suddenly a bunch of people are foisting their "earth is 6000 years old" arguments.

WTH?

I think this kind of fundamentalism exists in the LDS church, it's just not all that prominent.

It exists, but I think it's in decline.