Note that this assumes that physical laws and constants are been uniform over time and through out space. Since our direct observations are limited to a few years and the solar system; this is a bit presumptuous. The only real justification for this assumption is that there is no basis for any other.
And is the best ansumption possible unless God is a liar.
The earth is about 4.6 billion years old. There is really no credible dispute over that. Its ludicrous for anyone to believe that it is only a few thousand years old.
I am Protestant and I have many, many Protestants who believe the Earth is only 11,000 years old, give or take. They believe in a literal 7 day week of creation, dinosaurs lived with Adam and Eve, etc. My pastor who has a degree in evolutionary biology also claims the earth is young, and he has lots of scientific reasonings for it. For example. the Flood story…if the entire earth was covered by water, the water had no place to recede to because there was no dry land for it to recede to. My pastor says the water receded because the earth opened up and water went into the earth so it could recede. And dinosaurs…since death did not exist before Adam and Eve were created, dinosaurs could not have existed before them and then died before man was created. Those are a few examples of what some Protestants believe. Just giving you more food for thought!Hay y’all, I agree with what you are saying. I just wanted to see what others believed. . I am surprised that there has not been one who did the adding up of generations in the bible to the present and postulate that as the age of the earth. I am curious to see just how far this will go.
Prayers & blessings
Deacon Ed B
WOW…Were they home-schooled or what? And what kind of science courses didn’t they ‘get’?
Excuse me? Homeschooling does NOT equal ignorance.
TITCR
The only problem is that I don’t think the Bible is as clear as many people think. I know that there are those who add up the generations and ages, but I see one major flaw with this.
When I had Sacred Scripture in the seminary, way back when, our professor was also a Hebrew scholar. He pointed out that in Hebrew the word **“YOM” **which means day, can also mean decades and also an indeterminate period of time. Therefore, we do not know, nor does it suggest from the texts, whether it was meant to be a period of 24 hours for an earthly day as we commonly understand it. A decade. or eons and eons of time.
I was homeschooled for eleven years, then went to public school for three and graduated in the top 3% of my class. You would have to elaborate on “socially impeded,” but if it means not being able to relate to kids who look at someone wearing a prairie skirt and go “Oh, she’s weird,” then why should anyone want to relate to them? P. E., from what I’ve heard about it, is a pretty useless subject - just forced physical activity. How are the homeschooled students lacking in fine arts?
I’m not sure what you mean by that…could you elaborate?
How did we have “morning and evening” for the first three days if the sun wasn’t created until day 4 (vv. 14-16)?