The earth is 6000-10000 years old

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Contents 1 Claim 2 Source 3 Responses 4 Fallacies contained in this claim 5 References 6 Further Reading 7 Related claims 8 Acknowledgments

Claim

The earth is relatively young, about 10,000 years old or less.

Source

• Earthage.org [1]
• Earthage.org, Young Earth vs Old Earth Creationist Link Page [2]
• Humphreys, D. Russell, Evidence for a Young World [3]
• Pathlights, The Age of the Earth [4]
• Gitt, Werner, 1993. Did God Use Evolution?, p. 110

Responses

1. All the scientific data in the fields of geology, biology, and astronomy strongly suggest that the world is around 4.6 billion years old.
2. Radiometric Dating strongly suggests that the world is at least 4.6 billion years old.
3. Archaeological data suggests that humankind is older than 10,000 years.
4. Contrary to what Young Earth Creationists claim, the Bible never specifies the age of, or declares the date of the creation of the Earth.
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Fallacies contained in this claim

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References

1. Ding, Z.L. et al. Rearrangement of atmospheric circulation at about 2.6 Ma over Northern China: Records of evidence from grain size loess-red clay sequences. [5]
2. Donghuai Sun et al., 1997? Magnetostratigraphy and paleoclimatic interpretation of a continuous 7.2Ma Late Cenozoic eolian sediments from the Chinese Loess Plateau. [6]
3. Kashiwaya, Kenji, S. Ochiai, H. Sakai & T. Kawai, 2001. Orbit-related long-term climate cycles revealed in a 12-Myr continental record from Lake Baikal. Nature 410, 71-74.
4. Kitagawa and van der Plicht, 1998. Atmospheric Radiocarbon Calibration to 45,000 yr B.P.: Late Glacial Fluctuations and Cosmogenic Isotope Production. Science 279: 1187-1190
5. Russeau, D.-.D., and Wu, N., 1997. A new molluscan record of the monsoon variability over the past 130,000 yr in the Louchuan loess sequence, China. Geology 25(3): 275-278.
6. Williams, D. F., J. Peck, E. B. Karabanov, A. A. Prokopenko, V. Kravchinsky, J. King, and M. I. Kuzmin. Lake Baikal Record of Continental Climate Response to Orbital Insolation During the Past 5 Million Years. Science 278: 1114-1117.

Further Reading

• Dalrymple, G. Brent, 1991. The Age of the Earth, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA.
• Strahler, Arthur N., 1987. Science and Earth History, Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books.

Related claims

• The universe is 6000-10000 years old
• The universe was created with apparent age
• Humans are a few thousand years old, not millions
• Mankind has existed essentially unchanged for billions of years

Acknowledgments