I'm not sure that the earth is 4.5 billion years old but I am damn sure it is older than 6000 years. Why? Because I am older than 6000 years! Just kidding.

There is good reason to doubt the abolute accuracy of carbon dating and other methods of calculating the age of things, but there can be no doubt that, give or take a few hundreds of thousands of years, these techiques are valid to some extent. 4.5 billion years is a little too tidy a number, but I believe the earth is around this in age. The scientists who work with the wonderful machines that sense extremely tiny concentrations of isomers are on the right track, in my opinion. God has given us these complex problems to solve and I can't help feeling that He is not disappointed when we solve one.

For now, we say that it is 4.5 billion years old. It might change in the future though

Don't know the exact time, but surely not created by Mr.God....... because create means made - topic over. A thing created doesn't change. But as everything evolves according to theory of evolution. It is not made, it is evolution....!! And I answered because you said "a god" indicating an ordinary term....

The internet isn't always accurate, it's true, but there are certainly some scientific and government websites that always try to be accurate. Not everything is a .com.

And we know a maximum age of the earth. This is where planets come from:

1. A cloud of gas slowly condenses due to gravity, begins rotating and heating up.

2. After millions of years, the gas heats up enough for the particles to begin a nuclear process, an explosion occurs, and a star is born. This is called a first generation star because the gases that made it did not come from a previous dead star.

3. It goes through its life cycle and explodes again at the end. Debris is ejected out of that explosion, such as iron, helium, etc. The heavier materials like iron slow down and stop moving away from the star first due to gravity. Lighter materials slow later on. This is why the inner planets are rocky and the outer ones are gaseous.

4. The debris from this condenses into another star. The debris around the new protostar condenses over millions of years into round shapes because of their rotation and revolution.

5. A series of planets is born.

Obviously, a first generation star cannot have planets because it has no debris from an explosion. Our sun is either a second or third generation star. Stars at different stages of their life will have different concentrations of certain elements. These can be measured using spectroscopy (which wavelengths of light the particles give off).

Using spectroscopy, we have determined the sun to be 5 billion years old with approximately (I use this word because a star is more unpredictable at the end half of its life than the first) 5 billion more years before it dies.

Since planets come from stars, there is no way the earth is older than the sun-5 billion. Also, it takes quite a bit of time for all that debris to become a planet. About 5 million years. That (along with many, many other pieces of evidence) shows that the earth is 4.5 billion years old. If it were 9 billion years old, our sun would have to be 10 billion years old, and would be going through death throes right now. If we weren't even 1 billion years old, then the earth would be too molten and toxic for anything to live on.

I would love to explain this. This question arose 2 years ago before me.

According to Christians God created

the world only six thousand years ago. It is absolute nonsense, because in India we have found

cities of great culture and civilization -- Mohenjo Daro and Harappa, which Christian explorers, Christian scientists were excavating. They could not believe it -- God destroyed those cities

seven thousand years ago... before God created the world! And in Peking, China, the skeleton of

a man has been found called the Peking Man, which is eighty thousand years old.

Certainly the world is far more ancient than your God. Perhaps man created God six thousand

years ago -- that may be right. But idiots are idiots....

One great scholarly bishop was very much puzzled about the Peking Man, about Harappa and

Mohenjo Daro, and about the claim of a man who lived in Poona, a famous scholar, Lokmanya

Tilak, that the Hindu Vedas are ninety thousand years old.

And his evidence is such that it cannot be contradicted. His evidence is not logical but scientific,

astronomical.

In the Rigveda, a certain constellation of stars is described in absolute detail; this happened,

according to scientists, ninety thousand years ago. Unless Rigveda was written by people who

had seen that constellation they could not have described it in detail, and since then that

constellation has not happened again. Perhaps sometime in the future it may happen, but for

ninety thousand years it has not happened. The description is a solid proof that Rigveda was

written by people who had seen the constellation; without seeing that constellation there is no

way for them to have described which star was in which position. And they have described it so

scientifically that there is no possibility of making any improvement on it.

On the Himalayas, on top of the highest peaks of the Himalayas, sea animals' skeletons have

been found. That simply means that at a certain time -- perhaps a hundred million years before -

- there was an ocean in place of the Himalayas. Otherwise, sea animals cannot move from the

ocean, pass through the whole of India and go on top of the Himalayas to die there.

The only possibility is -- and this is now a scientific fact -- the Himalayas arose out of the ocean.

And as they arose out of the ocean, many animal fossils must have remained on these tops. The

Himalayas went on being forced up and these fossils were covered in snow. And as this vast

range of mountains called the Himalayas rose, the ocean receded.

The Hind Mahasagar, the great Indian Ocean, used to be where the Himalayas are -- one

hundred million years ago. Those animals prove it, because they are one hundred million years

old. There are ways to judge how old a skeleton is, and now those methods are absolutely

accurate.

The bishop was mad, because it was all going against the Bible. So he invented a theory -- this is

why I say a fanatic will not see the truth; he will try to continue his belief in a lie, will make all

kinds of excuses. This excuse is certainly worth understanding. The bishop invented a theory

that God created the world six thousand years ago as it is told in the Bible, but, as he is allpowerful, he created sea animals and put them on top of the Himalayas. And he created them so that they would appear one hundred million years old. He created the Harappa and Mohenjo

Daro ruins making them appear seven thousand years old; the Peking Man as if it is eighty

thousand yeas old... just to test the Christians' faith! What a great logic!

God seems to be a con man: "It is just a question of your faith."

But the fact is, this earth is four thousand million years old according to science. e. And man is at

least one million years old..!!

Rocks. Rocks are amazing, and take millions of years to form. We have rocks, the earth is older than 6000 yrs.