I don’t know how old the earth is and it doesn’t matter what I believe. This is about what proof there is about evolution.
Would you give a 5 year child the keys to your car, a credit card and a shopping list expecting the supplies to dinner would soon arrive? Of course not! God reveals truths to men only when mankind is ready for them. God is the most reasonable Being in the universe but men where not ready for the full story until they had experienced the fruits of reason over many centuries. They would have resisted much as you do today. Now you do a disservice to God by insisting on staying in childhood when the rest of the world has grown up. Your insistence on a certain story only makes others think belief in God is childish . I know you want to do right by God, but the world will not accept him if it means being blind to truths revealed about his universe and God knows this country needs God more than ever today!