The Bible doesn’t say the earth is 6,000 years old. It is basically a record of Adam and his descendants. That record is approximately 6,000 years old. It’s anyone’s guess as to what time period elapsed between Genesis 1:1 and the creation of Adam.
” It’s anyone’s guess as to what time period elapsed between Genesis 1:1 and the creation of Adam.”
And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
Even employing the record of Adam and his descendants to reach the number of about 6000 years depends on a particular interpretation of a couple of Hebrew words which could be argued—the word translated “year,” and the word translated “begot.” If “begot” doesn’t mean the immediate and direct transmission of the Y chromosome (and there are instances in the Bible where the word does not, or if “years” is not meant in our present usage (and there are instances where it does not), then the passages in the Bible under consideration are not suitable tools for calibrating our western-style natural history.
A couple of days I thought.