I have a costumer, a younger man, who was asking me if I read the Bible. I said yes and he went on to say how he always laughs when people start talking about things that happened 1 million years ago.
I stopped him there, telling him I wasn’t a New Earther. He seemed really disappoint.
I’m not saying it’s an impossibility but, from what I’ve seen and researched, it isn’t very likely.
OOOOH, what you said!
I’ve long held that it looks like the Lord used evolution, that we don’t know the time line other than that Man was probably a special creation, and to assume that the Earth is only 6 thousand years old is to assume that the Lord built lies and deception into it. (Adam and Eve probably didn’t have belly buttons, but they sure didn’t have the equivalent of an appendectomy scar - a physical manifestation of a false history - at their creation.)
In other words, the Lord showed Moses what happened and he did his best to tell us. The Judeo-Christian tradition has been able to accept the literally Earth-shaking idea that the world is not flat and the sun doesn’t revolve around us. We can take the knowledge that time did not begin a few days before the Fall.