How long has the earth existed?
I’d go with 4.5 billion years. Although I do believe in the ‘big bang’ and ‘evolution’, I remain certain that they are entirely driven by a creator. Let’s look at the first example of why for me a faith in science without God just doesn’t cut it – Evolution. According to Darwinists things ‘adapt to survive’, and things ‘survive to reproduce’. Consider Bacteria. Bacteria have been around for 3.5 billion years and when I sneeze I can get 100 billion of them on my handkerchief. Unlike us, they can double their population in an hour. Now consider humans. It’s taken mankind 2.4 million years of life on earth to reach our population ceiling of around 7 billion – but look at what we need just to survive one day: clothing, food, shelter, transport, mental, physical and emotional health, diet drinks, health drinks, vaccines, cellphones, email and Ipods. Three-and-a-half billion years of life on earth and the best evolution alone can offer us is the chance, if we are lucky, to reproduce ONCE in
• Are there other solar systems? The Solar System The solar system formed out of a cloud of gas and dust some 4.6 billion years ago. Most of the elements that make up the planets were forged inside an earlier generation of stars. When those stars died, they returned the material to space. Above are examples of dying stars that are currently returning material to space. Left) This is the star “Antares”. Surface windes are stripping off outer layers of the star. (Center) This is the RIng Nebula. There is a central star that expelled its outer layers to make up the ring. This object is called a “planetary nebula” but it has nothing to do with “planets”. (right) The “Crab Nebula” consists of dust and gas that was rapidly ejected in a supernova explosion about 1,000 years ago. The material expelled by stars becomes gravitationally gathered together after awhile in the form of giant molecular clouds of dust and gas. The above example is in Orion. In fact, you can see a fuzzy nebulosity in th
Hello, (ANS) Its been calculated by cosmologists, astrophysicists & astronomers that our universe was created from a single massive event i.e. the big bang and that this took place 35.7 billion years ago. This is when time & space was created. The earth itself is estimated to have been formed around 6 to 7 billion years ago, but bear in mind that the earth then was nothing more than a sphere of molten material. Whats termed “magma” like lava that comes out of present day volcanoes, like the material that remains at the core of our planet to this day. There was no life at all, the conditions for life came much much later as the planet cooled down. **The best estimates for the beginnings of life are 3 to 4 billion years, were talking the most basic like forms only though. i.e. the very start of evolution as defined by Darwin’s theories.
The Earth formed a bit after our Sun, about 4.5 billion years ago. The age has been calculated by using the half life of various radioactive elements in the oldest rocks. It is NOT carbon dating which cannot work for objects over 100,000 years, and certainly not before plants evolved. The Big Bang occurred at least 10 billion years before our solar system formed.
