BPNT Book Series - Chapter 22 - Is the Earth billions of years old?

How old is the earth?

Remember the 80,000 tons of mud per hour that the Mississippi river dumps in the Gulf? They have measured the delta in the Gulf of Mexico and concluded that it has been doing that for about 4400 years.

Bristlecone Pine trees are thought to be the oldest living trees in the world. The Redwoods in California are among the biggest and oldest. They estimate that they are about 4000 years old.

The oil that is under the surface of the planet is pressurized. That’s why it gushes up into the air like a fountain when it is tapped. After studying the pressure and the rocks and earth around these fields of oil, they have estimated that the containment can only be expected to last about 5000 years before it will deteriorate and burst followed by collapse. But wait! I thought it took 65 million years for it to develop? How has it maintained the pressure all these years? Doesn’t make sense at all…

Science data shows that something big happened to the magnetic poles about 4000 years ago. More on this later…

Guess what happened about 4400 years ago? An event we call Noah’s flood. The bible shows through lines of genealogy, telling us the ages of people when they had so and so and then how old that person was when they had so and so all the way to Noah, and then all the way to Jesus. It was about 1650 years between creation and the flood and then about another 2400 years to Jesus. This makes the earth about 6000 years old. But wait! Isn’t there all kinds of evidence to show that the earth is much older than that? Don’t we have carbon dating and other things that prove more age than that? We discuss these questions in this video!

The Bible also shows us exactly how old the earth is. It's right about 6000 years old!

The geneologies in the Bible show the exact years from Creation to when Abraham was born (1946 years exactly)...

Then, we see it was another 2000 years from Abraham to Jesus (545 from his Abraham's birth to the promised land, then 450 years of judges, then 500 years of kings and then about 500 years from Daniel to Jesus)...

And then about 2000 years from Jesus to today...

https://bibleprophecyandtruth.com/creation/earthsAge