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Okay okay, so we can't agree on some things about religion but can we at least agree that the Earth is older than 6 or 7 thousand years?

Asked by JeanPaulSartre (5785points) March 11th, 2010

So we apparently have some differing views about The Rapture…but can we at least come to grips with the age of the Earth? I’ll side with science on this one and say that the oldest rocks we’ve found date to around 3.8 – 3.9 billion years old… This doesn’t actually tell us the age of the Earth as it must be older, but it gives us a lower limit, that is, the Earth must be at least as old as any formation we find on it. The estimated age of the Earth is about 4.55 billion years (+/-1%). What are your thoughts on the age of our home?

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