Sean Parnell: 'Only God Knows' How Old Earth Is

exact answers don't occur in science. since it is always open to disproof and revision, there is no unchanging dogma, as in religion. the future might always reveal some phenomenon which makes scientists revise their theories.



religious dogma, on the other hand asserts an unchanging, stagnant 'truth' which shackles its believers to a long-ago world that has long since moved on.



in the end, science works with probabilities. so far, those probabilties and the constant revision of science give you benefits such as the computer which you use.



you could always pray for your message to magically appear here in this thread, but i don't think you or others have that much 'faith'. so, regardless of their religious dogmatic 'certainties', they fall back to using the fruits of a science which is under constant revision and improvement.



. . .and it's done the world pretty well over the years, too. . .



PS: The age of the Earth has been determined to be 4.54 billion years (4.54 × 109 years ± 1%). (US Geological Survey, 1997). i always leaned towards 4.6 billion, m'self.
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