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> Any number bigger than, say 100.000 years is just the same as infinity, regarding to time.

Tell that to a geologist or an astrophysicist and you'll be laughed out of the room. There's plenty of evidence of timescales in the millions and billions of years.



Exactly the opposite is true: theres is overwhelming evidence that the Universe (and our solar system) can't be older than just thousands of years.

Often in history majority was wrong. And history is repeating itself, repeatedly.


overwhelming evidence that the Universe (and our solar system) can't be older than just thousands of years

i'm very curious about your sources.




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