In my experience, the first response from Christians who do not accept the age of the earth that the Scriptures indicate, is to say something like “The New Testament does not make a big deal out of the age of the earth” or “It is not the purpose of the Bible to give the age of the earth”. Their point is that (1) the issue of the age of the earth is a non-essential, and (2) therefore not something we should argue about.I agree. I find this whole topic asinine. All it does is get Christians worked up over minutiae, and gets the atheists/agnostics riled up over "what idiots all Christians are."
Some people just need to find a hobby.
I find you guilty of apostasy. /sarcoff