Instead of an answer, now you claim it's my willful ignorance. That sure sounds like you are the one who is ignorant or else you would have answered my question.
I'm not sure what you're saying when you do not state why you *believe* the earth is billions of years old? My original question still stands.
What the earth being billions of years old is a theory. A theory based of ToE or the Theory of Evolution. ToE needed billions of years for evolution to happen. That is what I am saying is pseudoscience. If you want to know why, the answers are here --
The Young Earth .
If you look at the history of what science claimed to be the age of the earth, it was changing every twenty years. For example, schools were teaching it was around 2 billion years old in 1960s.
So science doesn't know, but won't peer-review what the young earth creation scientists are saying (leaving out the Bible).
Because you're theory is a plagiarized one, based on much more ancient texts. That told something totally different. And you're theory is then doubled down by ignorance, pride, greed, and... money.
And that theory has caused countless loss of life.
For no reason. Other than ignorance, pride, greed, and money.
You have to let go of the bs, and understand that spirituality is something that each person needs to learn on their own. It's not something you can drill into someone, or cause them to believe with the punishment of death and eternal damnation if they don't.
Christianity, and all other major religions, are money making machines. They only strive to keep and enforce the faithful to keep their money and power. And get new followers to continue the trend, no matter what the human cost.
They don't give even 1 single poop, about the people. And every government is entrenched with a religion, to give it an army willing to die for the religion.
So let's understand where your religion came from... So maybe you can start distancing yourself, and start looking at the reality...