The universe 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 Related claims 7 Acknowledgments

Claim

The universe is relatively young, only 6000 to 10,000 years old.

Source

• Earthage.org [1]
• Young Earth vs Old Earth Creationist Web Sites [2]
• Hovind, Kent, Are You Being Brainwashed By Your Public School Science Textbooks? [3]
• Gitt, Werner, 1993. Did God Use Evolution?, p. 110

Responses

1. All the scientific data suggests otherwise.
2. Radiometric Dating would say otherwise.
3. Potassium-Argon Dating would suggest otherwise.
4. The geological data suggests otherwise.
5. The biological data suggests otherwise.
6. The astronomical data suggests otherwise.
7. The archaeological data suggests otherwise.
8. Contrary to what Young Earth Creationists claim, the Bible never specifies the age of, or declares the date of the creation of the Universe.
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Fallacies contained in this claim

• Exclusion (contradictory evidence is ignored)
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References

1. Cole, Andrew A., 2000. The distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud. Science 289: 1149-1150.

Related claims

• The earth 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