[ChessExpert]

Does anyone know what Judaism has to say about the age of the earth?

[GodGunsGuts]

==Does anyone know what Judaism has to say about the age of the earth?

Judaism and Evolution

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/jewsevolution.html

[OneWingedShark]

>Does anyone know what Judaism has to say about the age of the earth?

They use a “year-from-creation” calendar which is somewhere around 6000 now. I think this is, ultimately, the reason young-earth creationists endorse that age.

While the Earth/Universe may indeed be only 6000 years old, there is an assumption that Adam’s age (9XX) began at creation... though that is not necessarily the case, if aging is simply the process of dying (after full maturity is reached) then before the fall he would have been immune to age as well as death. In that case, he and Eve could have been kicking around the Garden for billions of years before the fall.

I don’t know, I wasn’t there.