Where in the Bible do we get that the earth is 6000 years old?

Question

I keep hearing that, all my life I've heard the earth is only 6000 years old, but I have never found the Scripture that says it's true. I have come to the conclusion that someone was incorrect in their adding lol.

It's my theory that creation occurred exactly as God said it did, in 6 days. I believe that evolution occurred after Adam and Eve were in the Garden. After all, they were made in God's image, which is part eternal and timeless right? And why put them in a garden, if the whole world is a big garden? I believe evolution occurred between Genesis 2 and 3.

What say you?

Answer 1

it isn't in the Bible anywhere.

A preacher did his own calculations, and said that was the answer. Lots of people beleived him.

Answer 2

This is a very simple example why Christians are different than from Atheists. Most atheist don't use their God given brains to think and test a claim. But they blindly believe and agree anything which is presented in the name of science. They don't even bother to test and verify the claim of the asker if bibles actually says so. That is how blind most of you are. The bible never said the world was created 6000 years ago. They same way you have judged the bible, you have judge Christianity and God because you never really want to know or find out. Christians believe in what they belief because they have tried and tested their faith. They have read the Bible and it speaks the Truth to them. I have no problem with science but I don't agree with every scientific claims because as you would know after few years some other scientist would claim otherswise. Until up to few decades ago, aircraft aerofoil theory was founded on completely flawed theory, scientist thought they understood how aerofoil produced lift and many of the aircraft in air even today were built with that flawed notion about aerofoil. What does that shows ? Science could be wrong but still would appear true, it would only appear true for a moment until the real truth be revealed in a matter of time. There is no recorded history beyond 6000 years ago, and there is not reason why the world should have existed about billions of years ago. I would not behave like any aethiest and swear that the earth is billions of years old as I have not read the evidence and qhat methods of carbon dating was used to determine that and I don't even know if the the method they used would produce the same esults everytime the test is done. For it to be scientifically correct the experiement must be repeatable and should always give the same result and should not give a range like between 4 and 5 billions years old.

Answer 3

It comes from the mistaken view that each day God used in creating the earth was 1000 years long. In actuality, each of those figurative "days" were millions of years long. The idea that each day was 1000 years long comes from the Bible book of 2 Peter where it says: "with God, a thousand years is as [or like] a day". The scripture is referring to the eternal nature of God.

A day does not always mean a 24 hour period. For example, the Bible speaks about "Noah's day". Noah lived longer than just one day. A day, therefore, can refer to a definite period of time that has a beginning and an end. According to the book of Hebrews, were are currently still in the 7th day that is referred to in Genesis.

The mistaken view that the earth is only 6000 years old has caused much controversy in the fields of science and religion. However, the "days' listed in Genesis could have been millions of years long. The Bible is scientifically accurate when presented correctly. For example, back during a time when the world supposed the earth was flat, the Bible said that it was not (Isaiah 40:22).

Evolution is not a Bible teaching, because Genesis reports that God created animals "according to each kind". Evolution is a theory that has not been proven for over a hundred years.

Answer 4

This figure is reached by a narrow reading of the geneologies in the first few chapters of Genesis, particularly Genesis 4, 9 and 10. Add up the numbers and you get a figure that goes back to about 4000 BC.

There isn't necessarily an "error" in the adding as much as there is some question as to whether or not the culture in which Genesis was written used geneologies the same way we do. There is some ambiguity as to exactly how the family trees are supposed to work.

Furthermore, there is reason to believe that the "story" of Genesis, the narrative which begins the story of human history and redemption, begins in Genesis 2, not Genesis 1. Genesis 1 can be viewed as a poetic prelude to the rest of the book but does not have to be viewed as a historical account. Note that the world is also created in Genesis 2, which is a bit odd of it was created as described in the previous chapter.

Answer 5

Well, it is a misconception. The Hebrew word "dor" can mean both day and any long period of time. I think that the Bible was subject to many edits, including the editing of generations between Noah and Abraham, and that the world was created as the Bible says it (only in the long period sense), but that prehistoric man were considered animals. Adam and Eve I believe were the first of the final mutation of human DNA (Late 5000's-4000's BC), and I believe that the Flood really occured (3500-3200 BC), but rather not across the whole world, but the world Noah knew, as there IS sufficient evidence that there was a Flood there, just not everywhere else. So therefore, the age of the world may be the age science ascribes it, but it was still created by God and Adam and Eve I believe really did exist (from this is based the Egyptian creation story where Aten [phonetic equivalent of Adonai, who I also believe is the God of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam] created Atum [phonetic equivalent of Adam] and Nin-ti [not a phonetic equivalent, but same vocabularic meaning]).

Answer 6

Well, the Bible never says that the Earth is 6000 years old. That particular age of Earth was calculated by people who were running under the assumption that the events of the Bible flowed exactly as it was written. So, following the genealogies we find in the Bible ("So-and-so begot what's-his-name," and etc), some scholars back-calculated how old the earth should be, given a literal biblical account. That estimate appears to be about 6000 years old.

Answer 7

1.) I've never heard anyone say how old the Earth is
2.)Why does it matter so much anyway?
3.)I've never seen scripture say how old the Earth is
4.) I don't believe in Evolution. If you believe the Bible - you must Believe the ENTIRE Bible as written. The Bible says God created the animals. No where does it speak of evolution.

Answer 8

Some biblical scholars looked at the ages of Adam and Eve, Noah, Moses, the Patriarchs, etc., and calculated the creation of the world to 6000 years. Of course, who's to say that a day for god wasn't a few million years?

Answer 9

Why would Almighty God need evolution? It says he made everything, and it was GOOD, not half finished. Nothing is eveolving today--mutations and breeding, but no evolution.Bible scholars have added up life spans, and figured in accurate histories we have to come upwith an approximate figure of 6000 years.

Answer 10

The bible itself doesn't say the earth is 6,000 years old.

That number comes from bibical scholars who estimate 6,000 years based on bible stories in the Old Testament aka Hebrew Bible, the geneology lists (which guy begat which guy which begat which guy), and estimated life spans.

Answer 11

they added up geneologies.
if evolution happened after then why does the bible say God created animals, fish, and birds before he created people. if you were going of Genesis 2 then you would have a case since that says people came first then animals, but Genesis 1 say animals came first then people.