[__ Science __ ] Where Did the Idea of “Millions of Years” Come From?

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Today, most people in the world, including most people in the Church, take for granted that the earth and universe are millions and millions of years old.

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[Barbarian]

The important thing to remember, is that YE is an assumption by a minority of Christians that the Bible says the world is only a few thousand years old. But that assumption is not supported anywhere in the Bible. It's man's addition to God's word.

So, most Christians have no problem with the evidence showing that the world is much older than that.

 

[Truthfrees]

Today, most people in the world, including most people in the Church, take for granted that the earth and universe are millions and millions of years old.

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Lyell’s uniformitarian Principles dominated geology until about the 1970s, when Derek Ager (1923–1993), a prominent British geologist, and others increasingly challenged Lyell’s assumptions and argued that much of the rock record shows evidence of rapid catastrophic erosion or sedimentation, drastically reducing the time involved in the formation of many geological deposits.

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[Barbarian]

The first shot that physicists had was Lord Kelvin, who argued against Darwin's idea of billions of years, by showing that the sun seemed to be about ten million years old, given the rate of heat generated. This was the most common thought about the age of the earth until Rutherford discovered radioactive breakdown, and Darwin was shown to be right. Kelvin grudgingly admitted the fact, partially because Rutherford announced his findings with implicit praise for Kelvin's "prophetic utterance" that his findings were right, unless some other form of energy could be found.