Just how do they come up with the Earth being only 6,000 years anyway? I mean, we have evidence of civilizations 40-60,000 years ago.
Either we are misreading the Biblical story or that we are misreading the historical evidence.
I personally don’t think that it’s an attack on Scripture to affirm the Genesis events, but not necessarily the assumed dates of those events.
The idea of a 6,000 year-old planet is a construct of men. God has nothing to do with the errors of man, which are profligate and ongoing.
The pre-flood geneaologies are stated as follows: "A was ### old when B was born." Therefore, you can construct a time line to the flood.
The post flood geneaologies are written a little loser but are still bounded.
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