ABSTRACTS
Reevaluation of Earth Age Using Hung’s Dating Model
The dispute on the age of Earth between scientists and Biblical theologians has continued for centuries. Currently, most scientists claim an age of 4.5 billion years (US Geological Survey, 1997; Dalrymple, 2001), whereas James Ussher, priest of the Anglican Church, calculated it to be 6014 years from the present (Ussher, 1650–1654). Intensive study made by the group Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth (RATE) concluded that the age of Earth should be thousands of years but not billions of years (DeYoung, 2005). The author’s recent publication pointed out that the traditional model, which geologists use in dating the age of minerals and rocks, contains serious theoretical deficiencies (Hung, 2004, 2008). As a result, the traditional model overestimates the age of minerals. These deficiencies were inevitable because of lack of computational technology and equipment when the traditional dating model was developed. The same article also presented Hung’s dating model, which was developed with sound theoretical bases, for dating the age of rocks and minerals. This paper applies Hung’s dating model to convert the age of Earth claimed by scientists to a more realistic age and presents the processes and results of the conversion. The converted age of Earth is expected to be