Pic Of The Moment: QUESTION: How Old Is The Earth?

[Atypical Liberal]

23. Oh give me a break.

No one knows how old the earth is. No one was there when it was created. All Science can do is an estimated guess. And with the methods of dating in dispute and attacked for inaccuracy, that estimated guess is quite suspect.

I can't believe I'm taking the time to respond to this.

Look. All of science is about making estimated guesses. These "guesses" are then validated or refuted by gathering evidence. The more evidence you get, the more confidence you have in your guess, and the more precise your guess becomes.

People have been studying this subject scientifically for hundreds of years.

Right now, science is confident in the age of the Earth to within one percent, or plus or minus half a billion years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_Earth

The Earth is thus at least four billion years old.

But even if they were off by a factor of 4, the Earth would still be over a billion years old!

No matter how you want to twist and squirm, you are never, ever, ever going to square the age of the Earth with the "Young Earth Creationism":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Earth_creationism

So face it, dropboss11, the Earth is probably about 4.5 billion years old.