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Index to Creationist Claims,  edited by Mark Isaak,    Copyright © 2005
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Claim CH200:

The universe is relatively young, only 6,000 to 10,000 years old.

Response:

  1. The age of the earth is 4.5 billion years.

  2. The universe is shown to be old by several independent types of measurements:

Links:

Fraknoi, Andrew, George Greenstein, Bruce Partridge, and John Percy, 2004. An ancient universe: How astronomers know the vast scale of cosmic time. http://education.aas.org/publications/ancientuniverse.html or http://education.aas.org/publications/AncientUniverseWeb.pdf

References:

  1. Chaboyer, Brian, Pierre Demarque, Peter J. Kernan, and Lawrence M. Krauss. 1996. A lower limit on the age of the universe. Science 271: 957-961.
  2. Cole, Andrew A., 2000. The distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud. Science 289: 1149-1150.
  3. Nesvorny, D., W. F. Bottke Jr., L. Dones and H. F. Levison, 2002. The recent breakup of an asteroid in the main-belt region. Nature 417: 720-722.

Further Reading:

Ferris, Timothy, 1997. The Whole Shebang. New York: Simon & Schuster.
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