The age of the Earth is 4.54 ± 0.07 billion years (4.54 × 10[SUP]9[/SUP] years ± 1%).[SUP][1][/SUP][SUP][2][/SUP][SUP][3][/SUP]This age is based on evidence from radiometric age dating of meteorite material and is consistent with the ages of the oldest-known terrestrial and lunar samples. Following the scientific revolution and the development of radiometric age dating,measurements of lead in uranium-rich minerals showed that some were in excess of a billion years old.[SUP][4][/SUP]
The oldest such minerals analyzed to date – small crystals of zircon from the Jack Hills of Western Australia – are at least 4.404 billion years old.[SUP][5][/SUP][SUP][6][/SUP][SUP][7][/SUP] Comparing themass and luminosity of the Sun to those of other stars, it appears that the solar system cannot be much older than those rocks. Calcium-aluminium-rich inclusions – the oldest known solid constituents within meteorites that are formed within the solar system – are 4.567 billion years old,[SUP][8][/SUP][SUP][9][/SUP] giving an age for the solar systemand an upper limit for the age of Earth.
It is hypothesised that the accretion of Earth began soon after the formation of the calcium-aluminium-rich inclusions and the meteorites. Because the exact amount of time this accretion process took is not yet known, and the predictions from different accretion models range from a few millions up to about 100 million years, the exact age of Earth is difficult to determine. It is also difficult to determine the exact age of the oldest rocks on Earth, exposed at the surface, as they are aggregates of minerals of possibly different ages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_Earth
The oldest such minerals analyzed to date – small crystals of zircon from the Jack Hills of Western Australia – are at least 4.404 billion years old.[SUP][5][/SUP][SUP][6][/SUP][SUP][7][/SUP] Comparing themass and luminosity of the Sun to those of other stars, it appears that the solar system cannot be much older than those rocks. Calcium-aluminium-rich inclusions – the oldest known solid constituents within meteorites that are formed within the solar system – are 4.567 billion years old,[SUP][8][/SUP][SUP][9][/SUP] giving an age for the solar systemand an upper limit for the age of Earth.
It is hypothesised that the accretion of Earth began soon after the formation of the calcium-aluminium-rich inclusions and the meteorites. Because the exact amount of time this accretion process took is not yet known, and the predictions from different accretion models range from a few millions up to about 100 million years, the exact age of Earth is difficult to determine. It is also difficult to determine the exact age of the oldest rocks on Earth, exposed at the surface, as they are aggregates of minerals of possibly different ages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_Earth
Young Earth Creationists believe that the earth is around 6,000 years old. While I don't agree with them, I understand their thought process. They believe that God created the universe with an implicit age built in. If you believe in God/creation, it's certainly a plausible idea to think about. The problem is that historically, the motivation for believing in a young earth was two-fold: The belief that the English translation of the Hebrew word "yom" in Genesis meant a literal 24 hour day, and that you could use Biblical genealogies to compute the age of the earth. The problem is:
1. The Hebrew word Yom doesn't necessarily mean a 24 hour day, it can also mean a long period of time
2. The Biblical genealogies aren't complete, and aren't meant to be used to show the age of the earth
as per the Urban dictionary ..
http://www.urbandictionary.com/favorites.form.php?defid=1726666
Earth
The real hell. According to sacred Gnostic texts, has been and will be the darkest planet in the entire universe with more than 70% of it's inhabitants being ether dark or gray spirited. All life will end in 2100.
Be proud of youself for coming to this hellhole called Earth.
Earth
Would be better off without the human race.
Earth would be the the nicest place in the solar system, but noooo!
earth
The place that the human race has for thousands of years tried to destroy, and are finally getting it right..
Nuke`s are nice
Earth
The real hell. According to sacred Gnostic texts, has been and will be the darkest planet in the entire universe with more than 70% of it's inhabitants being ether dark or gray spirited. All life will end in 2100.
Be proud of youself for coming to this hellhole called Earth.
Earth
a spherical, lump of shit and piss floating around the Sun at 66,000 mph.
Incidentally, the place sucks the big one.
Earth? Who needs the place?
Earth
A moderately nice place until humans came along and fucked it with McDonalds and fecal matter
The Earth is good, but it spawned evil
Earth
A Satanically ran planet where 98% of it's inhabitants are unquestioning,conformist idiots who are totally controlled and manipulated by the Satanic governments of the world and have been made complacent by said governments,through rigorous brainwashing.
WAKE THE FUCK UP YOU MORONS!
http://www.urbandictionary.com/favorites.form.php?defid=1726666
Earth
The real hell. According to sacred Gnostic texts, has been and will be the darkest planet in the entire universe with more than 70% of it's inhabitants being ether dark or gray spirited. All life will end in 2100.
Be proud of youself for coming to this hellhole called Earth.
Earth
Would be better off without the human race.
Earth would be the the nicest place in the solar system, but noooo!
earth
The place that the human race has for thousands of years tried to destroy, and are finally getting it right..
Nuke`s are nice
Earth
The real hell. According to sacred Gnostic texts, has been and will be the darkest planet in the entire universe with more than 70% of it's inhabitants being ether dark or gray spirited. All life will end in 2100.
Be proud of youself for coming to this hellhole called Earth.
Earth
a spherical, lump of shit and piss floating around the Sun at 66,000 mph.
Incidentally, the place sucks the big one.
Earth? Who needs the place?
Earth
A moderately nice place until humans came along and fucked it with McDonalds and fecal matter
The Earth is good, but it spawned evil
Earth
A Satanically ran planet where 98% of it's inhabitants are unquestioning,conformist idiots who are totally controlled and manipulated by the Satanic governments of the world and have been made complacent by said governments,through rigorous brainwashing.
WAKE THE FUCK UP YOU MORONS!
It's very true.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/books/review/karl-marx-by-jonathan-sperber.html?pagewanted=all
The Karl Marx depicted in Jonathan Sperber’s absorbing, meticulously researched biography will be unnervingly familiar to anyone who has had even the most fleeting acquaintance with radical politics. Here is a man never more passionate than when attacking his own side, saddled with perennial money problems and still reliant on his parents for cash, constantly plotting new, world-changing ventures yet having trouble with both deadlines and personal hygiene, living in rooms that some might call bohemian, others plain “slummy,” and who can be maddeningly inconsistent when not lapsing into elaborate flights of theory and unintelligible abstraction.
Still, it comes as a shock to realize that the ultimate leftist, the father of Communism itself, fits a recognizable pattern. It’s like discovering that Jesus Christ regularly organized bake sales at his local church. So inflated and elevated is the global image of Marx, whether revered as a revolutionary icon or reviled as the wellspring of Soviet totalitarianism, that it’s unsettling to encounter a genuine human being, a character one might come across today. If the Marx described by Sperber, a professor at the University of Missouri specializing in European history, were around in 2013, he would be a compulsive blogger, and picking Twitter fights with Andrew Sullivan and Naomi Klein.
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He would have fit in perfectly with the Occupy Wall Street crowd.
Marxism is intellectualism for stupid people and you can really see why.
It's very true.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/books/review/karl-marx-by-jonathan-sperber.html?pagewanted=all
The Karl Marx depicted in Jonathan Sperber’s absorbing, meticulously researched biography will be unnervingly familiar to anyone who has had even the most fleeting acquaintance with radical politics. Here is a man never more passionate than when attacking his own side, saddled with perennial money problems and still reliant on his parents for cash, constantly plotting new, world-changing ventures yet having trouble with both deadlines and personal hygiene, living in rooms that some might call bohemian, others plain “slummy,” and who can be maddeningly inconsistent when not lapsing into elaborate flights of theory and unintelligible abstraction.
Still, it comes as a shock to realize that the ultimate leftist, the father of Communism itself, fits a recognizable pattern. It’s like discovering that Jesus Christ regularly organized bake sales at his local church. So inflated and elevated is the global image of Marx, whether revered as a revolutionary icon or reviled as the wellspring of Soviet totalitarianism, that it’s unsettling to encounter a genuine human being, a character one might come across today. If the Marx described by Sperber, a professor at the University of Missouri specializing in European history, were around in 2013, he would be a compulsive blogger, and picking Twitter fights with Andrew Sullivan and Naomi Klein.
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He would have fit in perfectly with the Occupy Wall Street crowd.
Marxism is intellectualism for stupid people and you can really see why.
Yes I think everyone is aware of his financial troubles. I guess thats the real worth of someone. That's not the same as living with his mother
