Originally Posted by Russ

Does the Bible claim that the age of the Earth 6000 years?


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While it is appears to be true that the Bible doesn't say the Earth is only 6000 years old, it does say God created light on the first day. It also says that He created stars on the fourth day. From day 1 to now, using Bible genealogies, is approximately 6000 years.

Per Genesis 1 (NIV):
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14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years,
15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so.
16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.
17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth,
18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.
19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.


So the light from those stars, unless it was created in situ before the stars were, should not have reached us by now.

Additionally, anything we appear to see happening to those stars (supernova...etc) could not have actually happened since the light would have to have been created billions of years before the stars were made.

Do you feel that God made the light so that it would show events that didn't really happen?


A faith that connot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. -- Arthur C. Clarke