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.
920/12=76.6
Let me explain something to you...I'm not offended at all at your opinions and your right about attributes toward the age of the earth, However there is one thing you totally over look. There is much more evidence in the bible to lead one to conclude it's accounting is authentic. Much more than any scientist rogue theory.
I believe in science, I believe in the pursuit of accuracy, what I will not put my trust or faith in is some far fetch theory for which there is no way to test the accuracy...and that is evolution an old earth theory.
The most important thing I want you to understand is you faith in your theory is RELIGION just as mine is. So don't tell me yours is scientific and mine is religious when we are discussing something we both can not prove scientifically.