27 Nov 05
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Originally posted by leestaticKelvin's proofs are presented on the page you linked to. However Kelvin's estimates (he made numerous revised estimates) ranged from 400 million years to 24 million years. He never stated that the earth was 5000 years old as the site would have you believe. They have completely misrepresented what Kelvin said.
I searched for "how old is Earth" and bang this came up on top titled how old is Earth
http://www.creator-creation.com/earth.htm
Also, many of his age of the earth papers had notes about the assumptions he made and how these being wrong would affect his answers. For example, the temperature of the earth information only works if there is no internal source of heat on earth. Rutherford showed that this wasn't the case when he discovered the effect of radioactivity on the heat of the earth.
27 Nov 05
Originally posted by XanthosNZit is a well known fact that all the leading experts agree that the earth is about half as old as my mother in law
Kelvin's proofs are presented on the page you linked to. However Kelvin's estimates (he made numerous revised estimates) ranged from 400 million years to 24 million years. He never stated that the earth was 5000 years old as the site would have you believe. They have completely misrepresented what Kelvin said.
Also, many of his age of the earth paper ...[text shortened]... t this wasn't the case when he discovered the effect of radioactivity on the heat of the earth.
27 Nov 05
Originally posted by Checkmate187Sh!t, I'm not even ready. Stock up on beer, post an annoying message with many spelling errors, win a tournament, and and bungee jump off the Golden Gate Bridge. I've got a lot of work to do.
Next tuesday, about 3:45 in the afternoon.
Give or take....
I think that the Earth is billions of years old. I've seen a lot of proof supporting this idea and not too much against it.
27 Nov 05
Originally posted by SkywardThey found a zircon crystal that was 4.4-billion-years-old and they reckon its the oldest object in the world so i think that says it all.
Is the earth billions of years old as some say it is or, is the earth only hundreds of thousands of years old as some say it is?
28 Nov 05
Originally posted by XanthosNZAn argument I made to one young earther goes like this:
Kelvin's proofs are presented on the page you linked to. However Kelvin's estimates (he made numerous revised estimates) ranged from 400 million years to 24 million years. He never stated that the earth was 5000 years old as the site would have you believe. They have completely misrepresented what Kelvin said.
Also, many of his age of the earth paper ...[text shortened]... t this wasn't the case when he discovered the effect of radioactivity on the heat of the earth.
Take a look at the moon. You see all those craters. They were
made by comets, asteroids, planetoids, etc. If all those things
impacted only 6,000 years ago, why isn't the moon still red hot?
It couldn't have cooled down much in only a few thousand years.
And why doesn't the earth look like the moon if all those hits
happened only a few thousand years ago.
This argument went so far over his head he never talked to me again.
28 Nov 05
Originally posted by SkywardIf the earth is only thousands of years old (and the universe as well) then it was cleaverly made to appear to be much older. If you accept that the speed of light is what scientists say it is and accept even in approximation the distances involved in the observable universe then either the universe is very old or was created with paintings of stars and galaxies in all directions to fool us into believing that they are realy there.
Is the earth billions of years old as some say it is or, is the earth only hundreds of thousands of years old as some say it is?
Approximate size of our own galaxy = 25000 light years.
Distance to andromeda (a nearby galaxy) over 2 million light-years
28 Nov 05
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Originally posted by twhiteheadApproximate size of our own galaxy is more like 4 times that figure (if talking diameter). The distance you are thinking of is the approximate distance to the centre of our galaxy.
Approximate size of our own galaxy = 25000 light years.
Distance to andromeda (a nearby galaxy) over 2 million light-years
Also, Andromeda (in this context) is a constellation, not a galaxy. There is however a large spiral galaxy in Andromeda (referred to as M31) which is 2.2 million light years away. This is also the furthest astronomical object visible to the naked eye.