Just out of curiosity, how old do you think the Earth is?
I don’t know. I think it’s older than 6,000 years, but am not sure that it’s the billions that scientists say.
They have rightly pointed out that if a change in conditions occurred like is mentioned in Genesis, then it would mess up their calculations and make them meaningless.
There is also this:
The Age of the Universe
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576941/posts
and the indication from Scripture that God created the universe pretty much as is so that it would be inhabitable.