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In reply to the discussion: Pic Of The Moment: QUESTION: How Old Is The Earth? [View all]Deep13
(39,154 posts)The Earth could be as old as 4.6 billion years or as young as 4.4 billion years. It really depends when you think the cooling blob of molten material stopped being a blob and started being the Earth. At what point was there enough rocky material from meteor strikes to go from being a proto-planet to being a planet?
I'm being a smart-ass, of course. The real point is that no reasonable person can possibly conclude that it was 6 or 10 thousand years old or that it was created as-is in six (not 7, you even got that wrong) days. Seven actual eras? What does that even mean? What he really means to say is, "I'm too stupid to be a Senator, let alone President. Anyway, Miss America is already our Queen and--not being a scientist--I would not want to usurp her royal authority."
There are no theories on how the universe was created, because no one capable of creating such a theory accepts that an outside divinity created it. How it formed or otherwise came to be, OTOH, yeah, there are a number of theories. They all involve some version of a big bang followed by rapid expansion.
I don't know what keeps us stuck to the ground. I'm not a scientist. I could be "gravity" or it could be foot glue.