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Ancient rocks exceeding 3.5 billion years in age are found on all of Earth's continents. The oldest rocks on Earth found so far are the Acasta Gneisses in northwestern Canada near Great Slave Lake (4.03 Ga) and the Isua Supracrustal rocks in West Greenland (3.7 to 3.8 Ga), but well-studied rocks nearly as old are also found in the Minnesota River Valley and northern Michigan (3.5-3.7 billion years), in Swaziland (3.4-3.5 billion years), and in Western Australia (3.4-3.6 billion years). These ancient rocks have been dated by a number of radiometric dating methods and the consistency of the results give scientists confidence that the ages are correct to within a few percent.
Originally posted by AD5673
The Earth cant be a billion years old because there would be billions of humans on Earth.[/qupote]
You're making a lot of assumptions here that aren't correct. For one thing, humans weren't created when the Earth was formed.
In 1900 there were about 1 billion people on Earth. One hundred years later it is nearly 10 billion people on Earth. If humanity is eve maybe 40,000 years old there would be nearly 60-100 billion people on Earth.
I believe that's a little high for 1900... and if you'll do a little research in graveyards and in geneaology, you'll find that a lot of people didn't have offspring, and that infant mortality was staggeringly high. Even today, in the poorest countries of the world, parents will have only 1-2 children survive out of perhaps 8-10 born.
Early homo sapiens was considered a tasty and easy to catch meal by large predators.
In farming communities, accidents cause a lot of early deaths. Before sanitation and modern medicine, plagues would periodically wipe out huge numbers of people.
Only one in ten survived the Black Plague... and in some areas, the mortality rate was 95%.
Originally posted by AD5673
Yes i know what the black plauge is and what the flu is! But the fossils thing you have absolutly no proof that there are millions of years old! That fossil would probably not even last a million years
Originally posted by AD5673
WWI. WWI, Vietnam War, Spanish Civil War, Korean War, Desert Storm... and much more wars have been in the last century.
Originally posted by Warhappy
look, i know y you dont like the idea of the earth being millions of years old..... it screws with your religion and the lame theory of creation!!!!!!!!
Rocks have been found on earth dating back to 3.5 billion years.
Originally posted by AD5673
Originally posted by Warhappy
look, i know y you dont like the idea of the earth being millions of years old..... it screws with your religion and the lame theory of creation!!!!!!!!
Yes it does. I am religous! And i belive in God and that the Bible tells the truth. I'm not saying that the Bbile's not edited and that lots of thing were changed... but i know Gos is real! And the Bible tells of how Earth was created.
Originally posted by quango
the only certain fact is - no one has ever sat by and watched the entire 3.5 billion year existence of the rocks in question.
Originally posted by Mr No One
While you are right to believe in God, you really shouldn't put so much stock in the words of the bible being absolute truth. The bible was written by man - inspired by God, but written by man.
Originally posted by kinglizard
Originally posted by Mr No One
While you are right to believe in God, you really shouldn't put so much stock in the words of the bible being absolute truth. The bible was written by man - inspired by God, but written by man.
The Bible does not claim that it was sent down from god in its entirety. Instead, it claims to be written by both God and men, and written in a way that perfectly says whatever God wanted it to say. So the bible says what God intended. You shouldn�t pick and choose to believe what you want in the bible; all of it is the word of god.
2 Peter 1:19-21
Prophecy of Scripture
And we have the word of the prophets made more certain, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation. For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
Originally posted by Mr No One
I am always amazed at the capacity of people to blindly believe a book that is supposed to be compiled of texts written thousands of years ago by people who claim they spoke to/for God.