However, the creation of Old Earth theology is a relatively new thing. It is one of the tools by which the liberals have been able to get away with things like evolution and not taking the Word of God as seriously as it deserves to be taken.
If Young Earth theology is true, there is no room for the millions of years that the evolutionists have claimed is necessary for the development of the earth and species. They need this to create a sense of mystery which bars the simpler truths of God's power from being manifest. God's powers as Creator are watered down; history is something unknowable and beginnings are unreachable. The plain meaning of Scripture becomes murky then not only in creation but it spreads throughout.
There is method in their madness. The evolutionists have succeeded in making God that much more unknowable and in so doing have elevated an elite class to what was before God's domain.