[Just mythoughts]

"We (the human race) started out thinking the universe was young until the evidence became so overwhelming that we finally had to admit it was billions of years old."


I do not believe this is historically correct, I think the theory of a young earth got rooted about the same time as darwin's plantings.

Biblically speaking Moses, David, Solomon, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Peter and Paul and others, knew and wrote about a very very OLD earth. Peter called it the earth that WAS.

[RadioAstronomer]

Nope. The "Young Earth" idea far preceded Darwin’s time. I cannot interpret what time span "old" means in the Bible.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"I do not believe this is historically correct, I think the theory of a young earth got rooted about the same time as darwin's plantings."

Exactly opposite. The idea that the earth was older than 6-10 thousand years starting taking shape in the later 1700's and early 1800's. Before that time, it was assumed that that the Earth was 6-10 thousand years old. By the time of Darwin, the idea that the Earth was very old (hundreds of thousands if not millions of years old) was the norm. The creationists that Darwin had to deal with were almost never YEC's.

"Biblically speaking Moses, David, Solomon, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Peter and Paul and others, knew and wrote about a very very OLD earth. Peter called it the earth that WAS."

6-10 thousand years old seems like a long time in human terms.