Christians who read the Bible for themselves, for the purpose of comprehending what it says, see that the Bible doesn't tell us the age of the earth. God created heaven and earth, "In the beginning", in verse 1, and the first instance of "And God said", which indicates the beginning of each day of Genesis 1, occurs in verse 3.
The use of "And" at the beginning of each day, indicates that it is continuing the previous narrative, and the first day is no different, so "the beginning" is not part of the first day.
The Bible doesn't tell us how long "the beginning" took, so Astrophysics and Geophysics are welcome to tell us how old heaven and earth are.
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say: Triggered!
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Peter say: They don't.
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David@YourService say: Irrespective of one’s religious beliefs, the overwhelming scientific evidence points to an age of the earth and even the universe closer to thousands of years rather than billions. The following videos and article provide some of that evidence as well as evidence against the deep time theory.
“Billions of years” came about in the late 19th and early 20th century because it helps the case for evolutionism and thus hurts the case for God. Its foundation is based on unprovable assumptions and gross extrapolations of existing data. If the situation were reversed and somehow “thousands of years” helped evolutionism and hurt the case for God, you’d see mainstream scientists do a complete backflip on the matter, extoling all the evidence for a young earth, and dismissing old earthers as fringe nut cases. Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc5GzeoA...