Old is a relative term. Considering the US national debt is $7.5 trillion, a universe that is 13.7 billion years old doesn’t seem that old to me.

These guys keep discussing Creation vs. Evolution of life on Earth. However one feels about that, there is almost universal agreement among scientist that the universe had a distinct beginning. Before that there was no time. Time did not exist. This is beyond my comprehension. But, unlike evolution, it is has been tested and verified and is as close to a scientific fact as anything can be. So given that we know the universe had a beginning, the question is how did it get here?




>>>There appears to be quite a concensus amongst the scientific community in this regard. What I have read appears to make sense to me as a layman. <
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>>I think 13.7 billion is the current estimate, but it could be anywhere between 10 and 20 billion.
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>>http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/age.html
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>Thats what I have read. Its old :)