Researchers have discovered a 16,500 year old cemetery in Jordan, making it 10,000 years older than the Earth?

What is the age of the earth?

Radiometric clocks operate on the principle of half-life decay. Radioactive isotopes disintegrate through time; that is, they decay into higher elements. Plutonium-239, for example, decays into helium-4 and uranium-235. If we start with 10,000 plutonium-239 atoms and wait 24,110 years, we'll have only 5,000 left. On other words, 24,110 years is the half-life for plutonium-239. After 48,220 years, only 2,500 will remain. After 72,330 years, 1,250 will remain. After 15 half-lives, the entire sample of 10,000 plutonium-239 atoms will have decayed into lighter elements.

The lack of naturally occurring plutonium-239 anywhere in earth's crust is one reason geologists and geophysicists are convinced earth must be older than 361,650 years. In fact, earth's crust is devoid of all short-lived radionuclides, except for the few that result from decay of long-lived radionuclides or from local or cosmic radiation. Geologists and geophysicists find no neptunium-237, no aluminum-26, no calcium-41, no iodine-129, no technetium-98, and no plutonium-244. The lack of these isotopes in earth, on the sun, or in meteorites persuades scientists that earth and the solar system must be older than a billion years.

The lack of neptunium-237, aluminum-26, calcium-41, iodine-129, technetium-98, and plutonium-244 on earth and the Sun does not mean they never existed. Astronomers have detected these radiometric elements in the spectra of stars or the interstellar medium, the gas and dust that exist between stars, that is demonstrably younger, by independent dating methods, than either earth or the sun. The interstellar medium belongs to the ensemble of material from which a rocky planet such as ours is formed.

Ross, Hugh. A Matter of Days: Resolving a Creation Controversy. Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2004. 175-76. Print.

What does the Bible tell us about the age of the Earth?

I remember once opening a Bible that was on the pulpit of a church. I opened it to the first page because I was preaching from the first chapter of Genesis, and it said, ‘The Book of Genesis,’ and then underneath 'The Book of Genesis' in black boldface numbers was this: ‘4004 BC.’ Right there on the first page of Scripture. I laughed. I thought it was funny because there was a man by the name of Archbishop Usher a couple of hundred years ago who, in reading the genealogies in the Bible, calculated an average lifespan of all those mentioned in the genealogy and came up with a highly speculative figure of 4004 as the date of Creation and tried to make a case that the Bible actually called for the creation of the world in 4004 BC.

What disturbed me was to see that number actually printed on the page of Holy Scripture. Now if somebody who doesn't know the origin of that kind of speculation picks up the Bible and reads on the page of Scripture '4004 BC' and their mother or their Sunday teacher tells them that the world was created 4000 years before Christ but the scientific evidence indicates that the universe is billions of years old, then they get all upset and think that somebody is attacking the Bible. When the fact of the matter is, the Bible doesn't give the slightest indication of when Creation occurred. So we really shouldn't be concerned about it.

Sproul, R. C. Now, That's a Good Question! Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 1996. 99-100. Print.

Even as a Christian, I believe in evolution, and therefore I believe the earth is more that 7, 000 years old. How, you ask? The answer is in Genesis---I really doubt "the first day" was exactly 24 hours long. God lives on His own time.

Well since carbon dating is based on science which is now believed to be false information by the creator and most other scientists, I wouldn't believe any age of anything that is aged by carbon dating. It's another thing scientists still use even though most of them know it is wrong. It's just like Darwinism. Scientists will tell you there is no proof and if anything the proof is dead opposite but scientists don't want to believe in God so they let the information still go out and let the people say over and over that science proves this when it doesn't even come close to proving it and actually proves it wrong.

even with my limited understanding of archeology, i understand from the bible that the earth is no less than 13 thousand years old, and possibly 14 thousand years.

so the date is agreable to me. i dont have much of a disinterest in this topic.

however, if one were to read Michael Cremos books, hidden archeology, it would show that the earth and civilizations have existed a lot longer than biblical standard dating.

however, one must understand that when the GODHEAD first appeared to come to this planet, imo, the earth was void of life and without form of continents. but the earth has existed ever since God created the foundation of the heavens. the rocks themselves could be billions of years old, but the genealogy of Adam only goes back 6000 years , and the earth still had several thousand years before THAT

There is so much more evidence to support that the earth is billions of years old, a silly cemetery is measly compared to it.

Yes, please source the dating method used to determine the age of the cemetary and the proper procedures documented on what ages they came up with before throwing out 50% of them that did not meet whatever bias they already brough to the table.

FYI, radiometric dating is based on a system that contains too many random variables that are not fully accounted for, even with the rule of large numbers.

God bless

Making up big numbers allows one to invent literally anything. Give an Atheist 250,000,000 years and he will give you a slug transforming into a human.

Sad.

Study the light speed debate. Decay depends on a constant speed of light. If light is slowing, then all dating methods using decay are deeply flawed.

Fortunately, I am one of those who accepts that the Earth is likely around 4.5 billion years old.

Science has proved that the Earth is in fact billions of years old.

As for this discovery? It confirms what rational people already know, Creationism is a farce.

I believe it's only the YEC's that hold to the 6,000 years, so if you're going to mock a particular group, you might want to narrow your focus, since not all creationists hold to the 6,000 years.

Seeing as the Earth was formed 4.5 billion years ago, it's really not that impossible.