[cccp_hater]

The 6,000-10,000 date has always seemed to me to be a closer depiction of how old the Jewish religion was thus how old the bible is and right about when the first worshippers of yahweh started writing down their beliefs.
I could be wrong but its just the way that rubbed me when I first heard about a "young earth theory".

[Radix]

There are a lot of works out there concerning the Hebrews, (Ha Piru) and the origins of monotheism.

As far as I am concerned the 6000 year old Earth debate is truly a matter of people simply not reading the actual text.

A calculator, a concordance, patience, and a whole lot of reading ought to make people more understanding of what Genesis (KJV, for me because I like the Strong's Concordance with Greek & Hebrew lexicons) really says about the age of mankind. Somehow, it never does that in my experience.

The age of the planet Earth is a different matter entirely. It makes people look foolish when they think that the word for day (likely pronounced YOM) is exclusively a matter of a 24 hour period.

Curiously, many eschatoligists have no problem at all explaining the true meaning for the word week (probably pronounced SHABUWA) when it comes to analyzing what a week really meant to Daniel in a particular prophecy.

I just see a lot of people with contradictory positions that are not based on actual reading or research.