My answer would be that the current scientific evidence is that the Earth is about 4.3 billion years old. However, it is not known what caused the Big Bang or how everything sprang from nothingness. Further, no scientist - not even Miles Degrasse Tyson in “Cosmos” - is able to explain how a self-replicating life form spontaneously arose from inorganic chemicals.
[ My answer would be that the current scientific evidence is that the Earth is about 4.3 billion years old. However, it is not known what caused the Big Bang or how everything sprang from nothingness. Further, no scientist - not even Miles Degrasse Tyson in “Cosmos” - is able to explain how a self-replicating life form spontaneously arose from inorganic chemicals. ]
How about saying that thinking you know how old the earth is like being an orphan who was abandoned at a fire station with no note and claiming to know exactly who their parents are.
And then say does it really matter knowing when the planet was born?