The age of the earth is over 10,000 years old.

This debate is as old as... wait how would i know? I'm only 21. On the resolution that the age of the earth is over 10,000 years old I am going to say... THE ONLY YEARS PROVABLE ARE THE ONES YOU'VE LIVED, THE EARTH AND THE UNIVERSE FOR THAT MATTER, ARE AS OLD AS THE CONSCIOUSNESS THAT FLUNG TIME INTO EXISTENCE, BY PERCEIVING CHANGE AND STORING STIMULI AS MEMORY. Contention 1: The Beginning of Time Humans are the only creature that perceive time (as far as we know) without us, the universe exists as a perpetual change machine, with no beginning or end, and certainly no humans to keep records for all that time. In fact, the subjectivity of the concept of time is so anthropocentric, that we measure the years of things far greater than our planet, than our solar system than our galaxy, by how many times, this one blue speck has circled our favorite star. Man is the measure of all things. Objectivity is a myth, man cannot perceive a true form, we are limited by sensory perception and subjective analysis. We can argue it's existence but I implore readers to take a stance of skepticism, as if they'd no previous opinion, and were learning about everything for the first time. This is because this debate will be judged on who provides the most logical arguments to support their claim. A) THE UNIVERSE WEARS NO WATCH i. Existence is infinite, it must be if the existence we are talking about is all encompassing, to limit the size of the universe is to separate the universe from whatever is not the universe. Whatever that void may be that is used as a contrast to the observable mess of matter we see in the eye of god, I am including it in my definition of the universe. ii. Everything that is has and will ever happen is happening simultaneously if we concede that the universe is infinite, for something to not exist within our universe is to define universe as something other than an all encompassing oneness. iii. Nothing is linear, the theory of fractal geometry states that the measurement of a thing is not true, but instead depends on the scope through which the thing is seen. I.E. if you were to measure south america with rulers the perimeter would be longer than if you had used yard sticks. Meaning that things are far more complex than the certainties that quantify them and our facts are fluid. B) MEMORY IS THE METER i. The only thing we have to measure time is our memory, the position our observable existence is now, the form it is now, relative to the form it was before. ii. Even times from before we were born, are memories because the way we receive them are experienced during our lifetime. I.E. Our parents told us, history lectures, literature, calenders, blah blah etc etc. iii. Without memory there is no time, ask a man with short term memory loss the date and you will find that he is actually in a different time than you. C) TIME AS AN ETHIC i. We've created time and mutually agreed upon the way in which we measure time, in order to function more efficiently in our lives, it brings context to stories, and order to the performing of social duties. It is a way to live well, but not necessarily a truth. D) I THINK THEREFORE I AM i. Renee Descartes renowned mathematician and philosopher, arguably the found of the modern scientific method, stated in his work that the only think you can prove is your existence. All other concepts are impossible to truly grasp through the methods of man. ii. Because this is about proving without a doubt the age of earth, I am going to use cogito ergo sum as a model in this debate. E) EVERYTHING IS AS OLD AS YOU TO YOU i. Conceding that we've created time to function, that time as a measurement is fail-able, and that it only observable through memory, we come to the crux of my argument. The universe is as old as you are. ii. Memory is the only solid evidence that anything ever happened, we think, therefore we are. The other is impossible to measure. iii. Therefore, the only accurate time frame we have, conceding that the earth's revolutions around the sun is the measurement of years, and that you can only prove that you exist, and memories are the measure of time, you cannot prove the existence of any years before your birth. MAN IS THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS, WITHOUT MIND TIME WOULD NOT EXIST, WE CAN PROVE ONLY OUR OWN EXISTENCE, MEMORY IS THE MEASURE OF TIME, ONE CAN ONLY PROVE THAT THE EARTH IS AS OLD AS THEM. Contention 2. On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres A) Young on Neptune, Ancient on Mercury, Eternal in the Universe i. We judge a year as 365 spins during 1 revolution of the earth around the sun. ii. On earth we are as old as we are now, on Neptune, we are much younger due to the length that Neptune must traverse to circle the sun. iii. Mercury years multiply our years by 5. iv. The universe does not orbit, it encompasses everything, and has no relative time, the universe relative to earths revolutions about the sun? An incredible comparison. v. this proves that our time is relative to a body, making the number describing the age of earth as long as you want it to be as depending on it's comparison. THE EARTH IS AS OLD AS YOU ARE RELATIVE TO THE SUN, BUT DEFINING ITS AGE IS SO PROPORTIONATELY PREPOSTEROUS THAT TO SAY THE EARTH WAS OLDER THAN 10000 YEARS WOULD MAKE NO MORE SENSE THAN SAYING IT WAS 1 YEARS OLD OR 123 TRILLION YEARS OLD, THE ONLY TIME YOU CAN PROVE IS THE TIME YOU REMEMBER RELATIVE TO THE SUN, THE EARTH IS NOT OLDER THAN TEN THOUSAND YEARS OLD.