Micro > The only disagreement is with what the guessed at age of EARTH actually is.
And, as many prior have said, "what difference does it make at this time and age we are in"?
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My first thought, was to point out that an earth only around for 6,000 years . . . Not a lot of time for the rise and fall of the dinosaurs.
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The Bible says "and there WERE Giants upon the earth"
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Was that referring to David and Goliath? Or perhaps a shepherd boy who found a dinosaur leg bone?
And then I googled the 'Oldest Civilizations on Earth' . . .
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1. San People
Era: c.140,000 to 100,000 years ago – present
Location: Southern Africa in countries such as Botswana, Namibia, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, and South Africa
Notable Achievements: Some of the oldest known rock paintings and oldest known ritual ceremony
Still Around: Yes
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2. Aboriginal Australians
Era: c.50,000 years ago – Present
Location: Australia
Notable Achievements: Oldest known ritual cremation, some of the oldest known rock paintings, and built the oldest structures (fish traps)
Still Around: Yes
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If God wiped almost everybody out in the Great Flood . . . then how come the San and the Australian Aborigines are still around? Not to mention that they've been around longer than 6,000 years.
And those Ice Ages?
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An ice age can last for millions of years, with individual glacial periods within an ice age lasting tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years.
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If somebody wants to claim that God Created everything along with all the fossil records, carbon-14 dating evidence . . . Who am I to claim he didn't?
And then we have :
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5. Jiahu (c. 7,000 BCE – 5,700 BCE)
Era: c.7000 BCE – 5700 BCE
Location: Henan, China
Notable Achievements: Jiahu symbols one of the earliest examples of writing and some of the oldest playable instruments
Still Around: No
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Written words from maybe 7,000 years ago?
http://www.oldest.org/culture/civilizations/
Science needs to be accurate. Science needs to be repeatable.
Studies of the past provide hints of what the future might be.
Hypothetically speaking . . . Some fruit loops manage to dump several tons of fine aluminum confetti into earth orbit . . reflecting a LOT of the suns energy out into space. The planet takes a dive into the deep freeze . . . How long till the orbitals clean out and how long till the ice melts and human civilization can again thrive?
Zim.
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