OK, where do you think in the Bible it says how old the Earth is?
I have been studying it for about 52 years and I have never found that verse, but maybe you can share it with me.
Check out the parts about 7 days and sun being created separately from stars.
What he said... EVERYTHING was created within 7 days. So that means that the Earth is just a few days older than humans.
1. That text is part of a literary style that is largely metaphorical and not to be taken literally. To take it as a literal seven days is to engage in very poor hermeneutical method.
2. That supposed week could have been billions of years ago and stretched out one "Day" at a time over the course of time to more recent time.
The Bible is a collection of books written at different times by different people from different cultures for entirely different reasons and with compeltely unrelated literary styles.
To try and interpret it as though it were a modern scientific text is a grotesque act of stupidity.
Tell that to most Conservatives and they will tell you that you are wrong.
If they tell me that they dont believe in Evolution or that they think Creationism as they understand it is incompatible with Evolution, well that is just their opinion, and we can discuss it.
But if they are going to assert that most of Christianity sees Evolution and Creationism as they do then they are factually wrong.
I personally see the bible as a collection of stories similar to Canterbury Tales. Stories with moral educational themes. Why else would it have so many fail safes? Like how it says you have to have faith to believe it and not trust in facts, that if you believe in it you'll go to this great place after death, and if you don't you'll go to the worst place you can imagine. Once again... no one can go to one of either of those places and come back to tell you if it is true or not. Unless you are a fan of Supernatural.
So why do you think that Aristotle and Plato came to believe in a monotheistic Creator about 200 years before Christ and Christianity were born? And they had no knowledge of Judaism, they did it all by rational argument and reasoning.
If it is all only by "faith" (whatever that means to you, I dont know) then how did Aristotle do it without that faith to start with?