How old is Earth?

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It was written:
>>I've been taught that the earth is around 6,000 years old, but I have
never
>>heard supporting evidence. I believe this number has been deduced from
the
>>"begats" found in Genesis.

>>Can someone explain why the secular world dates the earth in the
millions
>>and billions? On what do they base their theory (and it IS a theory)?
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>>Gia Moran

I Reply:

  We had a Sunday school lesson one day about this subject.  It seems
that a group of scientists were out searching a farmer's field, where
supposed "fossils" had been found, when they came across a set of bones
that their carbon dating testing told them were "millions" of years old. 
With great excitement they headed off to tell the farmer of their great
find.  The farmer, being a honest man, had to tell them that the bones
they had found, actually belonged to his prize-winning hog that had died
about ten years earlier.  Kind of goes to show that you can't believe
everything that "THEY" say is true, huh?

  By the way, since we are on the subject, am I the only one around here
that believes that God doesn't have to have a reason for everything, and
that some things are not going to be explainable by man.  For example,
does it have to make sense to our minds how God was able to fit all of
those animals on an ark that was, if I remember correctly, not that big? 
Just wondering.  I get a little down-hearted when I see,(or read), of
God's miracles being explained away with common thinking.  After all,
can't God do anything He wants, with anything He wants, since He is God??

Kathy Barnett
kathrynsbarnett@juno.com