i've asked this before,and am asking again............?

Do you really want to know the answer? My suggestion is to ask the creator of this earth yourself.

Is it impossible to talk to God? Nope. Try it and quit looking to man for answers that they can't answer.

Only God can answer this question for you. And that is as long as you're open to listening to Him.

I am a Christian and I don't think it is only 5000 years old either. Thats a small sect. I do have a question for you however that will be kinda me answering a question with a question.

Can you explain to me why you beleive that science gives you thousands of reasons to doubt the bible when those same "facts" are only based on theories? I'm not at all being confrontational here, but take a basic scientific fact like carbon dating. CD only goes back a few thousand years as a factual measuring method, the other millions of years that are stated as fact are in fact, ONLY THEORY.

Not speaking directly to you here, but I do find it odd that people question the bible as a factless book and yet will readily beleive these scientific "facts" that aren't even facts at all but human assumptions. If anything, doubt both and start your search there.

All scientists know this, including L. Harrison Matthews. In his forward to Darwin's 1971 edition of "Origin of the Species", Matthews says, "". . .Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parallel to belief in special creation--both are concepts which believers know to be true but neither, up to the present, has been capable of proof." In other words, the theory of evolution is a theory based on FAITH, rather than scientific fact

I do know Christians who think earth is only 5k years old or so.. in fact I remember hearing once that they had it down to exactly how old the earth is, figuring that god created the world in a week, and created man during that week. The bible gives ages of death for several prominent people, and also gives a listing of generations through the house of David. So and so begat so and so who begat so and so etc. Then they figure that David was like the great great great great granddad of Jesus... and bingo you now have a solid time line from Adam to Jesus... and we know he was born in about 33bc...

But there are other arguements as well... in the old testament, there was mention of great terrible beasts, leviathan and others.... which most people will interpret to mean Dinosaurs... that is to say, the TREX from Jurassic Park walked the same earth Man did... at the SAME time. So what about fossilized remains you might be asking... I know I did... the response... isnt it cool the way god can place rocks in the ground that look JUST like a dinosaur bone????

Personally... Carl Sagan said it best... Billions and Billions [of years.... ]

I'm Catholic and I think it's retarded how some Christians think that. They think the Earth is 6000 years old from when the Bible was written, because it took God 6 days (and one resting) to create the Earth, and he said "A day to man is like 1000 to God' and people take it literally.

God wasn't being specific, he just used a 1:1000 ratio as 1000 is a big number, he just ment that one of these "days" was equal to many years.

The problem is that conservative Christians aren't willing to consider that some of what the Bible said may be intended symbolically. In all likelihood, the story of creation and the fall of man is an allegory. The age of the earth or whether creationism, intelligent design, or evolution occurred is basically irrelevant. This knowledge is just not of much practical use.

The Bible counts the generations of man starting from the first man, Adam. I don't have a Bible in front of me, so I can't quote the exact numbers, but its something like this:

There are 300 generations of humans. If the average age of a new mother was 20, then 20x300=6000 years. Odds are, the mothers were 15 at the oldest, so 15x300=4500 yrs.

Christians believe that humans have been here for 6000 years. They believe the world has been here 8000 years for some similar reasoning.

I'm an atheist and think it's all hilarious.

I once had a conversation with an Army Chaplain about this. He says that if you truly read what time meant to God then evolution even fits into the bible.

Don't remember the verses but it was something along the lines of "to god a second is as a thousand years and a thousand years as a second"

So i guess that kinda kills any time line in the bible.

I don't think anyone has ever said the earth is only 5000 years old. That is an interpretation of calendar years. Whose to say the earth wasn't here much longer? Whose to say a day in the Bible isn't equal to 1,000,000 years?

First, this isn't the Religion & Spirituality section where this is continuously debated. Second, no one can explain it because it isn't just 5,000 years old; it's much older. Creationists only use the bible for proof and it doesn't have to make sense for them to insist on it as fact.

I personally don't know anyone who believes that, and I have a lot of Christian friends and family members.

But in ANY large group, you're going to have your share of odd balls. So why focus on them, when they are obviously the minority?

And why so much anger? What is it to you one way or another what they believe? Not trying to be snide, but really curious.