Evolutionists: How old is the universe?

Evolution is not related to the age of the universe.

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Evolution has nothing to do with the age of the Universe or even the age of the Earth. It is the observed change in the frequency of alleles in a population of organisms. It has nothing to say about the existence or non-existence of any god, and nothing to say about the origins of life.

The current estimate of the age of the Universe is 13.7 thousand million years plus or minus several million. The estimated error is much smaller in proportion than the errors in the Biblically generated estimates of the age of the Universe, four of which I present for your consideration.

Bishop Ussher - 6013 years

Jewish count - 5769 years

Alexandrian - 7512 years

Hales - 7420 years.

Given that the ages of the patriarchs in Genesis from Adam to Noah are very clearly set out and are not mistakable, and we know that the era of Jesus was 2009 years ago give or take just a few years, then the differences between the Jewish count and the Alexandrian calculation must all lie in the years between Noah and Jesus. That amounts to an error of about 1743 years in a period of just a few thousand years. That is a huge disagreement. Yet all the calculators are working from the same document.

There is no word "evolutionist": it was made up by cretinists and IDiots (Intelligent Design dupes) to make acceptance of evolution sound like a religion, which it *isn't*.

The current estimates for the age of the universe are 13.7 billion years and for the earth and solar system 4.6 billion. Life was not inevitable, as it took a billion years to get started and for another three billion years didn't get past the single-cell stage. It all changed wonderfully about 600 million years ago when a combination of random mutations and natural selection led to all the diversity we have today, all from *natural* causes.

Sorry, but your beliefs as a creationist fly in the face of not only science, but also the largest and oldest Christian Church in the world, the Roman Catholic Church, who happily accept both the Big Bang and human evolution. Because the evidence for a (roughly) 13.7 billion year old Universe and a (roughly) 5 billion year old Earth is all around us, your contention must be accusing God of lying to the human race by placing such evidence. The arrogance of creationists who decide for all of us what God can and can't do is breathtaking. The deeper my researches into the cosmos takes me, the more I become convinced of a Creator/Prime Mover, call Him what you will. However, I certainly don't claim to set the parameters in which He can work!

The formation of Solar Systems is very well understood because we can observe it taking place in the intergalactic dust clouds all around us. Why do you believe the Earth is somehow different and was created by somebody waving a magic wand?

Please develop some critical thinking skills and reject this silly creationist pseudo-scientific psychobabble. The notion that the Earth is only a few thousand years old is not grounded in reality.

Can anyone answer, or just "evolutionists"?

The currenty-accepted age of the universe is 13.73 billion years.

The age of the universe has NOTHING to do with evolution - evolution is the theory of how life developed on Earth.

The currently-accepted age of the Earth is 4.54 billion years.

I'm guessing that, as a creationist, you put the age of the Earth at 6013 years (give or take a week)?

"...Current interpretations of astronomical observations indicate that the age of the Universe is 13.73 (± 0.12) billion years,[1] and that the diameter of the observable universe is at least 93 billion light years, or 8.80 × 1026 metres...."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe

"...Modern geologists and geophysicists accept that the age of the Earth is around 4.54 billion years (4.54 × 109 years ± 1%).[1] [2] [3] This age has been determined by radiometric age dating of meteorite material and is consistent with the ages of the oldest-known terrestrial and lunar samples...."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_Earth

"...Partial skeleton gives ancient hominids a new look

A trove of 4.4-million-year-old fossils throws unexpected light on some of humanity’s oldest evolutionary relatives By Bruce Bower Web edition : Thursday, October 1st, 2009 ..."

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/47954/t...

These are all FACTS, agreed upon by multiple scientists, not opinions.

If you're a creationist, who or what created the creator?

As a creationist, you'll be stuck in an eternal cycle of creation.

Nothing was "created" Everything always was here and what's here is constantly changing.

I'm a Christian. I believe in the big bang and the 14-15 year-old universe and an earth created eons ago.

Do you believe Christian scientists dismiss the ages of the universe and earth as nonsense? Come on!

According to the Paranoid Calvinist Ussher, the world was created 1,500 years after the beginning of Judaism.

Yes, after.

No wonder the rest of the Church rejected his result.

According to the clues left behind by God, the Earth appears to be a little over 4.5 billion years old (that is the American billion, the small one).

The earth was created long after the big bang....I believe scientists say the Big Bang happened 13 billion years ago...and that the earth was created 4.5 billion years ago