02-02-2009, 03:20 PM
sgtcarl1 Wrote:The earth and/or stars are HOW old??? By the measuring system many of us use, the earth is only about 7500 years old. Can science disprove that?
Easily. Carbon dating alone provides dates going back hundred of millions of years, and the rate of decay of Carbon 14 is solid fact.
Where does your hard data for "7500 years" come from?
What we do "know" at this point is that the light form the furthers stars observed traveled 13 billion years to reach us, meaning that the cosmos is probably somewhere around 14 billion years old by current estimates.