How old is the Earth, I mean REALLY?

Obviously it's 6000 years old. I mean come on, the bible says it and the bible is NEVER wrong.

Like my sarcasm?

4.5-4.7 billion years is the currently accepted figure.

The creationist view may work in the USA where the 4400 (?) years ago date for the flood would pose no problems. But for the people of my village in England it would have dampened the carpets in our local 4600 year old castle at the very least.

The 6000 year old earth theory also doesn`t take into account the written Chinese records that go back 16,000 years.

Amongst all the usual nonsense they come out with.

The Earth is billions of years old.

Evolution takes a long time so you won't see anything on the surface that's different. However, we have found bones and skulls that date from many, many years ago and there are differences with them.

Lots of evidence for both sides.

(A) is meant to be closer to 8000 years. 6000 years was made without the knowledge of ancient egypt and sumer.

4.5 billion years is the age of a Sun in its current cycle, based on the theory. Therefore earth is assumped to have formed of the remaining gases of that time. then theres assumption of life creating and freakish odds of it occuring and evolutionary theory.

Evolution sounds like a religion to me. Its having a faith that creatures change slightly every generation. But no animals have ever been discovered where thes is a suttle changes from one being to the next. Always giant gaps. But it the best atheists have to got by, so fair enough.

I think (A) is correct but, there is something just as complex about it as there is in (b), just the reaserch isnt going to it.

About 5 billions years old. Creationism is silly. Evolution is fact. Evolution also takes millions of years, so don't expect to be seeing any obvious changes in your lifetime.

About 4.5 billion years. And no creation ideas. That is from our barely civilized past.

>How old is the Earth

About 4.5 billion years.

>I mean REALLY?

6000 years. Because after all, when you want to know REAL facts, you turn to bronze age storybooks! </sarcasm>

4.5 billion years old. Really.

" Scientific evidence indicates that the planet formed 4.54 billion years ago"

B) is back up by mounds and mounds of empirical evidence and is regarded as fact.

A) was made up to get around the court decision to keep Creationism out of science classrooms.

I'd go with B.

Roughly 4.5 billion years. We could be off by a bit.

But not off by billions of years thats for sure.

My religion don't make any statements regarding the age of the Earth. So I'm willing to go what science tells out about it.