How old is the earth and how old is the universe?

Jacob_Tyers

Standard Theory places the universe at about 7-20 billion years old and the earth and 4.54 billion years old. http://emporium.turnpike.net/C/cs/agetalk/sld004.htm Dec 14 07, 3:22 PM

zbeckabee

Young Earth creationism is the religious belief that the Earth and life on Earth were created by a direct act of God dating between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago. Its adherents are Christians, Jews or Muslims who believe that God created the Earth in six 24-hour days, taking the Hebrew text of Genesis as a literal account. Some adherents believe that existing evidence in the natural world today supports a strict interpretation of scriptural creation as historical fact, or that the scientific evidence supporting evolution, geological uniformitarianism, and other theories which are at odds with a literal interpretation of the Genesis creation account, are either flawed or misinterpreted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_earth Dec 14 07, 11:10 PM