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About 5 billion, if you agree with Darwin.
Here are some interesting facts I happened across while researching for my physics essay however.....
(Admittedly, this is probably the wrong forum for them, but lets see if anyone here takes a blind bit of notice)
Solar collapse.
Our sun is gradually shrinking at a steady rate. It is occurring fast enough that, as little as 50,000 years ago, the sun would have been so large that our oceans would boil. In far less time in the past (25,000 years or so), all life on earth would have ceased to exist.
Comets.
Comets circle the sun and are assumed to be as old as our solar system. Since they are continually disintegrating, and a number are known to have broken up, evidently all of them self-destruct within a relatively short time period. It is estimated that the comets cannot be over 10,000 years old.
Comet water.
Comets are primarily composed of water. So many small comets strike the earth that, if our planet was billions of years old, our oceans would be filled several times over with water.
Moon dust.
Ultraviolet light changes moon rocks into dust. It had long been predicted that a thick layer of dust (20-60 miles [32-96.5 km], caused by ultraviolet radiation on the moon's 4-billion-year-old surface, must cover the moon's surface. But scientists were astonished to learn that there is not over 2-3 inches [5.08-7.62 cm] of dust—just the amount expected if the moon was only a few thousand years old.
Lunar recession.
The moon is already far too close to the earth. It is now know that, due to tidal friction, it is gradually moving farther away from us. Based on the rate of recession, the moon cannot be very old. If it were even 20,000 to 30,000 years old, it would at some earlier time have been so close—it would have fallen into our planet!
Meteor craters.
Meteor craters are never found in the rock strata! Yet they would be found there, if millions of years were required to lay down that sedimentary strata. Meteor craters always lie close to or on the earth's surface. Thus, all the meteors which have struck the earth—have hit it within the last few thousand years.
Earth rotation.
Because of solar and lunar gravitational drag forces, the spin of the earth (now about 1,000 mph [1,609 kmph]) is gradually slowing down. If our world was billions of years old, it would already have stopped turning. Or, calculating differently, a billion years ago our planet would have been spinning so fast—it would have become a pancake. So, either way, our earth cannot be more than a few thousand years old.
Magnetic field decay.
Earth's magnetic field is slowly, relentlessly lessening. Even 7,000 years ago, the earth would have had a magnetic field 32 times stronger than it is now. Only 20,000 years ago, enough heat would have been generated to liquefy the planet. Therefore, the earth cannot be over 6,000 or 7,000 years old. This is an important matter, affects the entire planet, and has been measured for over 150 years.
Erosion in the ocean.
We do not find the erosion in the ocean floors which ought to be there if the world were millions or billions of years old. There are ragged cliffs and steep mountains. Indeed, the continents should have eroded into the oceans by now.
Here are some interesting facts I happened across while researching for my physics essay however.....
(Admittedly, this is probably the wrong forum for them, but lets see if anyone here takes a blind bit of notice)
Solar collapse.
Our sun is gradually shrinking at a steady rate. It is occurring fast enough that, as little as 50,000 years ago, the sun would have been so large that our oceans would boil. In far less time in the past (25,000 years or so), all life on earth would have ceased to exist.
Comets.
Comets circle the sun and are assumed to be as old as our solar system. Since they are continually disintegrating, and a number are known to have broken up, evidently all of them self-destruct within a relatively short time period. It is estimated that the comets cannot be over 10,000 years old.
Comet water.
Comets are primarily composed of water. So many small comets strike the earth that, if our planet was billions of years old, our oceans would be filled several times over with water.
Moon dust.
Ultraviolet light changes moon rocks into dust. It had long been predicted that a thick layer of dust (20-60 miles [32-96.5 km], caused by ultraviolet radiation on the moon's 4-billion-year-old surface, must cover the moon's surface. But scientists were astonished to learn that there is not over 2-3 inches [5.08-7.62 cm] of dust—just the amount expected if the moon was only a few thousand years old.
Lunar recession.
The moon is already far too close to the earth. It is now know that, due to tidal friction, it is gradually moving farther away from us. Based on the rate of recession, the moon cannot be very old. If it were even 20,000 to 30,000 years old, it would at some earlier time have been so close—it would have fallen into our planet!
Meteor craters.
Meteor craters are never found in the rock strata! Yet they would be found there, if millions of years were required to lay down that sedimentary strata. Meteor craters always lie close to or on the earth's surface. Thus, all the meteors which have struck the earth—have hit it within the last few thousand years.
Earth rotation.
Because of solar and lunar gravitational drag forces, the spin of the earth (now about 1,000 mph [1,609 kmph]) is gradually slowing down. If our world was billions of years old, it would already have stopped turning. Or, calculating differently, a billion years ago our planet would have been spinning so fast—it would have become a pancake. So, either way, our earth cannot be more than a few thousand years old.
Magnetic field decay.
Earth's magnetic field is slowly, relentlessly lessening. Even 7,000 years ago, the earth would have had a magnetic field 32 times stronger than it is now. Only 20,000 years ago, enough heat would have been generated to liquefy the planet. Therefore, the earth cannot be over 6,000 or 7,000 years old. This is an important matter, affects the entire planet, and has been measured for over 150 years.
Erosion in the ocean.
We do not find the erosion in the ocean floors which ought to be there if the world were millions or billions of years old. There are ragged cliffs and steep mountains. Indeed, the continents should have eroded into the oceans by now.
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No Meka the world is 16 years and 6 days old... you are all robots and I am the only true being... like The truman Show... everything does not exist unless I can see it... so there :P
Interesting facts anyway... but in saying that a lot of things are just theory like Chemistry... nothing is actually *proven* or something.
Interesting facts anyway... but in saying that a lot of things are just theory like Chemistry... nothing is actually *proven* or something.
That's because I'm old before, old before my time.
I would never have guessed you were younger than me, Meka...
In my opinion the Earth is 24 years, 4 months and 1 day old.
It's all a figment of my imagination.
Or something.
It's all a figment of my imagination.
Or something.
in my case 16 years.
Venombyte.
Don't multiple necessities beyond entity or you will end in a vicious infinite recress.
Don't multiple necessities beyond entity or you will end in a vicious infinite recress.
That's the whole point. The website then goes on to give more evidence which supposedly disproves Darwin's theory of evolution.
I too am interested with space and things, there is a good series on CH4 on mondays I think all about planets and stuff.
But if 50, 000 years ago the sea was boiling, wouldn't the dinosaurs and all have been fried. I thought the dinosaurs where around millions of years ago.
But if 50, 000 years ago the sea was boiling, wouldn't the dinosaurs and all have been fried. I thought the dinosaurs where around millions of years ago.
¦¦ lvlägmä Ðrägòón ¦¦ wrote:
> darwin is mostly fiction made into fact, i'd say the earth is very old over 500
> billion years in my estimate.
you're a bit wrong there by, hmmm lets say 496b years.
The Earth is around 4 billion years old according to scientists on every science program I've seen about space on TV (I'm a sci fi fan, I watch these things)
> darwin is mostly fiction made into fact, i'd say the earth is very old over 500
> billion years in my estimate.
you're a bit wrong there by, hmmm lets say 496b years.
The Earth is around 4 billion years old according to scientists on every science program I've seen about space on TV (I'm a sci fi fan, I watch these things)
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