According to the Bible, how old is the world?

According to reliable radiometric dating techniques used by geologists, the Earth is at least 4.5 billion years old (that's 4,500,000,000 years before present). This is based on measurements on outcrops of very ancient rocks (not fossils - a widely believed misconception!). But these rocks themselves were probably been derived from even older rocks which formed the first-formed continental crust. 

Nowehere in the Bible is the age of the Earth mentioned. Bishop Ussher, in a remarkably scholarly attempt well before the advent of modern day geological thnking, estimated the age of the Earth by counting up all the generations in the Old testament, plus a few adjustments here and there. He came up with a date for Genesis at just over 6000 years BC (that's 8000 years old!).

You asked as to the time difference:

4,500,000,000 minus 8,000 = 4,500,092,000

Rounded up, that's still 4.5 billion years!

Well, actually the bible does not say. It even clearly states that time to "god" is different than what humans experience. A while back some morons decided that they would add up the ages of some of the characters in the bible and they came up with that number. Some say anywhere from 6 to 10,000 years. These idiots are in the minority though. They're known as "young Earth creationists". The VAST majority of Christians know that the Earth is billions of years old and the universe billions of years older than that. Even when I was a Christian everyone I knew had no doubts that the Earth was billions of years old. I didn't even realize there were any fools left who *actually* think it was only a few thousand years old until I started visiting this site.

The Bible NEVER SAYS how old the world is.

Bishop James Ussher, in 1650, published his own ideas about tre ageg of the world, and set the Date of Creation at Octrober 23, 4004 BC. Bishop Ussher claimd to use "Biblical references" to arrive at this date, but along with the Bible he also used more than 10,000 OTHER books, and it took him more than 20 years to arrive at this figure.

But, as the bible teaches, "Let God be true, and all men are liars." This idea of a 6000-to-10,000 year old earth was determined by A MAN, not by God.

The Bible NEVER SAYS how old the world is.

Back in the seventeenth century an Anglican bishop added up the various ages in the Bible, and concluded that the Earth was created in 4004BC.

Ever since American evangelicals mislaid their brains, around the beginning of the twentieth century, belief in the absolute veracity of Bishop Ussher's calculations has been de rigueur for them.

About seven hundred years ago, a rabbi in Israel published a book where,

using the Jewish Bible,

he calculated the age of the universe at roughly 15 billion years

and the first life on earth at roughly 3 billion years.

You should ask In what forms plural does THE WORD OF GOD give an age to these creative acts plural? THE BIBLE gives neither age!

JESUS BLESS YOU

david stotler

The Bible makes no reference to the age of the earth.

I read once that, if you added up all the years between Adam and Jesus via the various bloodlines, and took the stance that the earth is 6,000 years old, then Jesus would have been crucified during the Reagan years.

How long did Adam live again? 900 years?

In years, the Bible can be interpret the world to be between 1 and graham's number.

Dude, getting facts from the Bible is like voting Republican.

It's dumb, against your best interest, and will come back to bite you on the ***.