[Alas Babylon!]

Totally agree, but some people, in the past and even today, have gone through extraordinary mental gymnastics to say it is so.

Probably the greatest example is James Ussher, Bishop in the Church of Ireland, from 1625 to 1656, who calculated all the ages of Jesus's human ancestry, all the begats, and "Proved" that since Adam, the age of the Earth.

So subsequently, a large amount of Christians in diverse places have believed it is biblically-based.

The debate is explained well here.

[zeugma]

Yeah, I read through all that years ago and think it's bunk. "A thousand ages in thy sight are like an evening gone". Time is not the same to God that it is to us, primarily because He exists outside of time and space.

[21twelve]

Thank you for that informative link.

I’m a creationist and a scientist. I did know about the probable incomplete geneologies and the use of the term day also meaning an “age” - or a period of time of unknown length. But lots of other good stuff in there. Thanks!