Well the alternative to your viewpoint would infer that you can’t trust the God revealed in the Bible. His words would have to contain falsehoods and be untrustworthy for your millions and billions of life and death before mankind to ring true.
My two favorite links from my years of participation here at FreeRepublic ~ enjoy!
101 Evidences for a Young Age of the Earth...And the Universe
http://creation.com/age-of-the-earth
Center for Scientific Creation - In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood
http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/IntheBeginningTOC.html
Thanks. Those links are perfectly hilarious.
Jesus never said a word about a young earth, or an old earth, or anything else involving the sciences.
Everything in science indicates an old earth, etc... Why would God perpetrate a hoax on people?
Maybe he didn’t.