Quote:Once again, it's not proven that life on Earth was formed long after a so-called "big bang".  And it is still just a theory, not a proven fact.

 

 

We can measure the age of the Earth through potassium/Argon dating. We know it's 4.6 billion years old. Life on Earth could not have existed before there was an Earth. 
While it's not definitive proof of the age of the Earth (and we could all just be a computer program too) it's by far the best explanation. You could also postulate that the Earth was created more recently with rocks with that K40/Ar40 ratio. That implies that whoever created the Earth was vey deceptive.

 

We can also measure the distance to distant galaxies using the brightness of Type I supernovae. Those measurements could be off, but not by a factor of 2, so even with the most extreme error we still know we can see starlight from objects more than 4.6 billion light years distant. Once again the alternative is to assume that some deceptive creator made the universe with the photons from distant stars already most of the way here (or that we're a computer program).

 

So yes, barring the computer program theory or the very deceptive creator theory, I think it's safe to claim that the universe is older than the Earth.

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