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How many times longer than the length of one year is the age of the Earth?
Year :- A year is the orbital period of the
Earth moving in its orbit around the Sun.
Several Christian ministries promote the idea that the earth is
less than 10,000 years old, which they say comes from the Bible
The second assumption is that the Genesis creation "days" were exactly 24-hours in length. It turns out that both assumptions are false.
" If you condense the history of the Earth about 4.54 billion years to just one year, humans have been been here for only about 23 minutes of that one year". In real time, humans have been on the Earth about 200,000 years. The sun predates us all, however it is estimated to be about 4.57 billion years old.
The average length of the year in the Gregorian calendar is 365.2425 days (taking account of the century rule for leap years). In an informative annex, the International Standard ISO 80000-3 proposes the symbol a to represent a year of either 365 or 366 days. In English the abbreviations y and yr are used.
In the Genesis 1 creation account, each "day" ends as "evening and morning 'n' day," where "n" is the day's number. Although many Christians claim this makes the days exactly 24-hours in length, the Hebrew word translated "day" in English actually has three literal translations; the daylight portion of a 24-hour day, a 24-hour day, and a long, unspecified period of time. The Hebrew word translated "evening" also means "sunset," "night" or "ending of the day." The Hebrew word translated "morning" also means "sunrise," "coming of light," "beginning of the day," or "dawning," with possible metaphoric usage.
HENCE:- The earth age is 4.54