Jeepers, editor-surveyor, I regard myself as a creationist — but not by this definition! Who came up with this definition?
I am just a simple, plain-vanilla creationist. That is to say, one who believes that God created all things in heaven and on earth, and pre-eminently man, in the Beginning. And that, as the Gospel of John tells us, "All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made." (John 1:3)
The physicists tell us that the estimated age of the universe is 13.7 billion years. To speak of "age" at all implies a beginning. It doesn't really matter to me how old the universe is. That is irrelevant to the idea of its having had a beginning. Regardless of its age, the Creation was "in the Beginning" — the spiritual creation as described in Genesis 1.
Just my thoughts, FWIW.
I too had some belief in the old-ages theories. Problem is they are not Biblical. The Bible tells us the age of the earth by telling us so and so begat so and so at a certain age - how Usher came up w/ 4004 yrs BC. Other Bible historians argue that some folks were removed from biblical history due to God’s displeasure w/ their sin(s). Factoring in possible gaps still leaves us short of 10,000 years.
But my cousin, who is a pastor, put it best when he questioned me about my salvation in Christ. Aout how our ultimate ‘source’ of this was from God’s inspired Word. So then he asked me if Genesis was not as indicated where exactly in the Bible do I think God stopped telling lies?