Actually the Bible pretty much gives you the exact age of the earth through textual evidence.

it is essential information to the faith because it is written in the Bible. nowhere in the Bible did God say the earth was old

Please elaborate. Perhaps I have missed something in my studies that you have noticed?

I think that because people challenge Christianity with other theories like evolution, Christians turn to scientific reasoning to provide arguments against those theories. I personally don't think I'd be a Christian today if I hadn't started looking for physical evidence of God existing, but I agree that I should have more faith, it's something I need to work on

He never said that it was young either. There is a lot of grey area that allows for both arguments for both old and new earth, as well as scientific evidence supporting both

Glad that you found your way home

Thanks, so am I :)

@Eggy If it gives us the exact age, then why is this still an ongoing debate?

First of all we start out with the fact that creation is a literal 6 days plus a day of rest. He is clear that it is a literal six days due to the fact that it is mentioned several times throughout the Bible. Next we have the genealogies that specifically give ages and the names clarifying a certain amount of time. So from creation there is roughly about 2,000 years til the birth of Christ. Then we have (I believe if my math is correct) 6,000 years from the Birth of Christ to the present. Making the earth roughly 10,000 years old. There is way more evidence for a young earth throughout the Bible but I just thought i would give you the main evidence. I didn't say it specifically stated that the Bible said how many years exactly, but it gives us enough evidence to piece the information together.

6000 years from the birth of Christ til now?

ya

i think im a bit off but im in the ball park

wait sorry the total i believe is 6000 years... sorry my math is shoddy

What do you mean by "He is clear that it is a literal six days due to the fact that it is mentioned several times throughout the Bible?" How does it being repeated make it literal? Who says that 1 day to God is the same as a day to us? How long were Adam and Eve in the garden before the fall? These unanswered question provide us with the massive gray areas that make it difficult to determine the earth's age. Also 2000 years from the birth of Christ til now and at least 4-6000 years between creation and Jesus.

It's only been two thousand years since Christ was on the Earth. The Hebrew calendar I believe is in year 7,000 something so the young Earth estimate would roughly line up with that. I try to not pick a side or have an opinion on the age of the earth as I can see both sides for a young Earth and old earth. I can even debate both sides.

I agree

Thank you. As you said though, details such as that doesn't matter in the grand scheme as God created it and one day we'll go home to Heaven.

Exodus 20:11 mentions and confirms six days yet again in Exodus 31:17 the week is literally based off of the six days of creation plus the day of rest the jews follow the sabbath where they believe that they should not do anything one the seventh day out of respect for God.

To play devil's advocate, creation is six days, yes. But is that God's days or man's days? We've applied to man's day. But a day to God is as a thousand years. He's outside of time so it was in six days, but that's still above our understanding. Another support for my comment is when Christ was about to ascend, He said He would be back soon and that generation would not pass away. Here we are two thousand years later. Again, God is external to time so soon is soon for Him but maybe a long time for us bound by time. I'm a staunch Christian, but food for thought and evidence that this debate on the minor subject of the age of the earth doesn't matter in the end.

Exactly there is always questions that is why there is still a debate over young/old earth.

That I agree with.

Wells another point to bring into this discussion is time didn't exist before the creation. @Southernpatriot01

God created day and night during the creation hence creating time.

Indeed.

Could I just point out this one thing.
2 Peter Chapter 3 verses 8-9
“With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like a day.”
Then there are more areas where “in thy court a day is like a thousand of years”....
Sooooooo if in God’s 6 days of creation and 1 day of resting. That could have been 7,000 years of the earth and everything being made, then God resting. So, to that verse and some other’s...we could say. The Earth is way older than just 6,000 years. Because of that, then, we could assume God made it in 6,000 years, but scaled it down to the time of Man

True i think there a verse that Says he existed before time for he is the beginning and the end

Correct to both of you. That's why I try to stay out of the debate on the age of the earth. It ultimately doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.

Because I support the Southern Confederacy. I don't support everything she was built on, but I support her all the same. Slavery was an issue, that's undeniable and neither do I support it, but there were other reasons everyone discards and always unjustly imposes a modern sense of opinion and morality if you will on to the past.

Again, that was an issue, but there were others. However, here is not the appropriate chat for this fun conversation. Feel free to dm me as I greatly enjoy this topic and even wrote a 15pg paper on it for fun.

What are your thoughts on what I said appertaining yesterday's debate?

Just my essay in general I reckon.

Ok. But yes, the massive one before I pinged you.

I am a Creationist, yes. I'm also a staunch Christian.

Theories are high, yes, but not fully proven as laws are so there is still room for flaws in a theory no matter how narrow.

Yes. That's why I said still has room for flaws no matter how narrow. That means not necessarily likely, but possible.

Shoot. I may not be able to respond in depth immediately as I'm about ready to take a test for school.

peer-reviewed is not a perfect system and should always be taken with a grain of salt -- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/05/upshot/peer-review-the-worst-way-to-judge-research-except-for-all-the-others.html

ya very small though. It's more of things adapting in order to survive. It doesn't happen subconsciously.

well depends how would you define the word adapt

ya they believe that the monkey became a person over millions of years. They believe that it slowly adapted into a new creature.

ok but that brings us back to what I was saying earlier last night
about adaptation the odds of it actually occurring are 1/364...followed by 1,625 zeros. You are more likely to win the poweraball lottery 200 times in a row than for adaptation to happen once. How is it possible for creatures to have adapted so "fast" (millions of years) with those odds. It's impossible. (The odds of winning the powerball lottery are 1 in 292,201,338