The Earth is 6,000 years old

To promote that the Earth is required by the Bible or Qur'an to be 6,000 years old (or anything less than a few billion) is dangerous since were people to believe that they would have to accept that the holy book is a lie once they understood the evidence for the extremely ancient Earth.

Causing or Encouraging people to give up on the Holy Scripts (either Bible or Qur'an) through listening to your lies or ignorance is a form of Shirk and according to the Qur'an the liar would be destined for Hell.

The same applies to telling a lie that the Earth is not spheroidal etc.  -- you would be encouraging people to become disbelievers and according to the Qur'an, sending them to Hell along with yourself.

Do you really want to go there?



Edited by Ringer - 11 May 2016 at 2:00am

interesting

Abu Loren wrote: A spinning globe Earth is a satanic lie! It doesn't make any sense at all. The Earth does NOT spin 1,000+ miles.

Rarely have I seen such a closed, fixed, position so firmly held on no solid ground at all.

No Satan required at all

You who rail at people believing without thought, scepticism or fair, questioning doubt; have you brought thought, scepticism or fair, questioning doubt against the flat earth or young earth models of earth and the solar system, or the cosmos as a whole?

Have you seen how many wild assumptions and extra entities have to be brought into play (or ignored!) to make these young or flat perspectives even seem to work?

I've twice been round the world. Looking at a flat map the air-flight leg times don't match by such a large degree that I don't need close detail
I've been to Australia twice.
THE STARS ARE WRONG.
(That's to a northern hemisphere dweller, on a spheroidal earth.)
On a flat earth the stars should look pretty much the same, looking up from Australia or the UK, because that's looking in almost the same direction. Think about it for ten seconds.

It may be that a *absolutely* literal reading of terms seems to imply a flat earth, but this requires a ruling brought in from outside as far as I can tell.
No metaphors, similes or pictorial language anywhere in the Qur'an?   I'd be very surprised.

But the world is round, and it spins, and gravity works.
(On a flat earth how do you get much more variation in day length through the year as you get near the North pole? The effect is clearly recorded in discussion on its effects on Ramadan at such latitudes.)

Edited by Emettman - 27 January 2016 at 4:06am

Matt Browne wrote: Mentioning carbon dating in this context shows a lack of knowledge in this matter. The topic is the age of the Earth, not the age of a preserved iceman eating plants a couple of thousand years ago containing C-14 atoms. Perhaps you've never heard of elements such as argon and lead and where they come from.

Carbon dating doesn't work. Full Stop. Period.