Let's see. I have a choice. Either I believe what God has said, or I BELIEVE what some scientist, who is supposed to observe with an objective eye, and report facts, but instead speculates and makes people believe they're reporting fact, when they are in fact, speculating.
Yes, I chose the BIBLE any day over unobjective, enviromentalist, wacko, scientific THEORIES.
I hope this doesn't offend you too much, and I know this may start some fireworks... But I have two problems with this statement.
One: There is not one line in the bible that attributes the age of the earth being spoken by God.
Two: The Bible was writen by men. Though I am sure they were full of faith and devinely inspired, they were men. Keep your faith in The Lord my friend. The Book is tool, learn from it, love it, cherish the lessons it strives to teach - don't worship it. After all, the bible is an earthly thing made by men, for men, inspired by God. It isn't God himself.
I always find it amazing that people will trust that a man lived over 920 years based upon what's written by man -without any evidence at all- but will not trust that men lived 8,000 years ago even when presented with mounds of evidence. At some point acceptance of one writen word over another stops being 'faith' and begins to be willing ignorance. (I mean that only in the literal way, The condition of being uneducated, unaware, or uninformed. NOT as an insult.)
Perhaps you should list for others here on this thread, the empirical evidence that any man has lived for 200 years. Understand, you must choose more than one source (I don't care who coppied it from an earlier source or how it was re-written, you must use more than one original source.) I'm sure that most on this thread would be amazed at such a find.