Given that time is relative there is no reason one necessarily has to choose between young earth/old earth. Both could be true.
"Both could be true": James writes that the double-minded man is unstable in all of his ways (1:8), and Paul writes (Ro 8:6) that to be carnally minded leads to death.
The narrative in Genesis is not "time relative" for it specifically says "evening and morning" in defining the boundaries of each "day". Evening and morning are both events, not relative terms in that the event can take place over the span of "billions of years".
The six day Creation is embedded in the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:11) and to say that the Ten Commandments are "relative" shows a profound disregard for the things of God.
The narrative in Genesis is not "time relative" for it specifically says "evening and morning" in defining the boundaries of each "day". Evening and morning are both events, not relative terms in that the event can take place over the span of "billions of years".
The six day Creation is embedded in the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:11) and to say that the Ten Commandments are "relative" shows a profound disregard for the things of God.
This is not a case where someone is being double minded. This is literally a case where time, as we see it, is not the same as time as God see's it. God recorded the first day as evening and morning, or one yowm, from His vantage outside of time and being clearly able to see the End from the Beginning, but how long does that evening and morning appear to us now, at this point in time? Scripture states that we view reality as through a dim glass, I suspect that this is one of those instances where what we see appears to be at odds with what God has recorded but it really isn't at odds because our understanding of the situation is limited.
In short, God's view of Time versus our view of Time is relative to who is viewing it.
This is obviously going over your head. All that's relative is time. This means that from the perspective of someone who was present at the time, creation literally took 7 days. From the perspective of someone much, much later, under different enviornmental conditions, the event would appear to have taken much, much longer. Both are equally true. That's what the relativity of time means. A GPS satellite travelling at a high velocity experiences time differently than we do here on earth. What takes it X amount of time to do would last twice as long here on earth during the VERY SAME temporal period. That's why time adjustments must be made to make GPS work. Essentially, a minute goes by much more quickly for the satellite than it does for us here on earth. People going different velocities experience a different amount of time going by during the same temporal period.