Those “thousands year old collection of writings” state many things in them that those (alleged) goat herders could NEVER have known on their own.
Try this one out for some recreational reading, if you haven’t seen it before.
The threads were both posted with the same title, several years apart, so I think there are things in them that Gerald Schroder may have later included that weren’t in the first one.
The Age of the Universe
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3051495/posts (2013)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576941/posts (2005)
I have seen those before and they are interesting.
So you don’t believe science is reliable? Interesting standpoint given the recent flyby of Pluto, rovers on Mars, the discovery of blackholes everywhere, planets in abundance, etc. Not to mention all of the technological advances here on earth.