Any "Young Earthers" here. as in the earth is 6000 years old?

[AK47]

Just curious anyone here think the earth is only 6000 years old?

I did not know people still believe this but the internet amazed me once again so I gots to know anyone here a Young Earther?

[Jayster]

????????

Is not time relative?

[Dred]

Man, some youtube drama about this is quite entertaining. It has been one of my main sources of fun for a lil while, hah.

...Ahh, the drama you see on utubez sometimes... priceless...

[AK47]

????????

Is not time relative?

Cant make nukes without knowing elemental half-lifes.

[Dred]

AK47... Nukes...

No, not suspicious at all...

[Ben...]

Oh jeez not this. There are quite a few kids at my school who believe that. Arguing with them is a lost cause. They all use the excuse "Because God made it that way" and it makes me want to smash my head through a wall. They're also all anti-Evolution yet they contradict themselves by saying that small changes can happen yet they say that's still not Evolution. GAAAAH!!

And yes, the use of carbon dating with elemental half-life calculations has dated the earth back billions of years.

[GodOfRhythm]

????????

Is not time relative?

Oh dear god, here we go. Already trying to sidestep the question with pseudoscientific fog and haze? Hope not!

[FlyingSkull]

You can blame Archbishop James Ussher for the dating of creation to the 6 thousand year mark. He had it down to October 23rd 4004 BC ha ha, He took all the genealogies and history that was church canon at that point and went backwards. Back in the middle ages this sort of thing was an important pastime I guess?

I remember reading somewhere that Newton believed this as well, but he had a habit of cutting things out of the Bible he didn't like anyway!

A side note I actually hang out at a few forums where Fundamentalist Christians post, and even many of them who feel each word of the Bible is God's literal word, don't have issues with an old earth. I would say that in 50 years this belief will be very rare.

For me it is, Singularity, Big Bang, Expansion, Heat Death, Collapse, Singularity, rinse, repeat x infinity. haha I probably have a few steps mussed up! More Supernovas!

[atomic charvel guy]

this planet is only 44 years old, it didn't get rolling until I was born.
I wasn't born though, i was squeezed out of a bar rag.

[Big D]

"Young earth" creationists should be ridiculed and beaten at every opportunity. Spread the good word.

What's really frustrating is that this is largely an American phenomena. At what point exactly did our country get so fucking dumb?

Perhaps when guys like this started having too much influence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFvTAH2XgMg

[AK47]

FYI my belief is that some alien race millions of years ago came here and genetically engineered us from monkeys and their race then said "fuck this shit, these people are crazy" and left. So we slowly evolved a little more over the course of millions of years but not by much. I mean we cant fly and shoot lasers out of our eyes yet.


My alien theory comes from the fact that we dont really fit in with anything else here on earth and we just kind of fuck shit up here along the way. The rest of the stuff here may poop on the earth but thats the worst they do.

[GodOfRhythm]

FYI my belief is that some alien race millions of years ago came here and genetically engineered us from monkeys and their race then said "fuck this shit, these people are crazy" and left. So we slowly evolved a little more over the course of millions of years but not by much. I mean we cant fly and shoot lasers out of our eyes yet.


My alien theory comes from the fact that we dont really fit in with anything else here on earth and we just kind of fuck shit up here along the way. The rest of the stuff here may poop on the earth but thats the worst they do.

I take it you're being sarcastic? (I sure hope so)

[Jacksons Shred]

I take it you're being sarcastic? (I sure hope so)

...You're..A non believer?

Death is the only way out!

[atomic charvel guy]

FYI my belief is that some alien race millions of years ago came here and genetically engineered us from monkeys and their race then said "fuck this shit, these people are crazy" and left. So we slowly evolved a little more over the course of millions of years but not by much. I mean we cant fly and shoot lasers out of our eyes yet.


My alien theory comes from the fact that we dont really fit in with anything else here on earth and we just kind of fuck shit up here along the way. The rest of the stuff here may poop on the earth but thats the worst they do.

after watching a ton of discovery and history channel, you can't rule it out-lol

[Jacksons Shred]

Death to all who neglects he who walks behind the corn.