I'm told that Creationists believe the Earth is approximately 6 to 10,000 years old. Is this true?

Answer 1

SOME Creationists. It depends if you take the Words in the Bible literally. Yes, they are God's Words and should be seen as important. But, they are open to human error since it was actually Moses that was transcribing it. If the Words are literal, the bible is closer to 6,000 years old, not 10,000, based on the lineage seen from Adam, to Noah, to Abraham, to Issac, Jacob, Levi, .... and Jesus. Of course, that leads me to my next thought below, that the bible says Noah lived to 300+ years old. Did he really live that long, or is it a matter of respect to say he was old in his wisdom. And, the date calculated by using the lineage, may have left out some generations, as no one "important" may have been born. So the guy that calculated it based on lineage could be wrong.

Other Creationists believe that the term "a day" is not a literal 24 hours. Or, that one day to God is not the same as our 24 hour day. If this is true, we would have no way of knowing how old the Earth really is.

For me, I go back and forth. The scientists have been wrong before; the earth could be younger. But, I lean more on the other side... I don't think it makes me believe God's Word is wrong. I believe people have interpreted It wrong. God never says in the Bible that the Earth is only 6,000 years old. It could very well be billions.

Answer 2

Nope.

Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

There are 3 heaven and earth ages, same heaven and earth but different ages.

II Pet.3:5-7 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
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THE WORLD THAT THEN WAS
Gen.1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

To that earth age the world that then was, belongs all fossils and remains. Scientific estimates or guesses; universe or heavens 20 billion years old, earth 4.6 billion years old, moon 200 to 300 million years younger than earth, dinosaur extinction 65 million years ago, Ice Age 2.5 million years ago.
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BEING OVERFLOWED WITH WATER PERISHED
Gen.1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

AND THE EARTH WAS
The word “was” (hayah) in Hebrew, was not distinguished by the Revisers, that is the verb “to be” from “to become”. The same Hebrew word “hayah” is translated “became” in Gen.2:7.
AND THE EARTH BECAME

WITHOUT FORM H8414 tohu (to'-hoo) From an unused root meaning to lie waste; a desolation (of surface), that is, desert; figuratively a worthless thing; adverbially in vain: - confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.

VOID H922 bohu (bo'-hoo) From an unused root (meaning to be empty); a vacuity, that is, (superficially) an undistinguishable ruin: - emptiness, void.
AND THE EARTH BECAME DESOLATE AND EMPTY
Earth was not created that way but became desolate and empty due to Satan’s rebellion. A global overflowing of water, but not Noah’s deluge. Darkness was upon the (face) of the deep, in other words the whole earth.
Into this we can read; dinosaur extinction, destruction of Atlantis, breakup of Gondwana Land, and the Ice Age.
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BUT THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH WHICH ARE NOW
Gen.1:2 And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Gen.1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

About 63 A.D. Peter writes, the heavens and the earth which are now. The heaven and earth age we are in now, today.
BY THE SAME WORD ARE KEPT IN STORE
RESERVED UNTO FIRE
AGAINST THE DAY OF JUDGMENT
AND PERDITION OF UNGODLY MEN
PERDITION G684 apoleia (ap-o'-li-a) From a presumed derivative of G622; ruin or loss (physical, spiritual or eternal): - damnable (-nation), destruction, die, perdition, X perish, pernicious ways, waste.
Some will perish eternally and not see the third heaven and earth age.

Answer 3

This is not specifically associated with Creationism. The two issues are separate - where we came from and age of the earth. Some people who believe in Creation also believe that the earth is only 6-10K yo. I'm not aware of anyone who believes in a young earth and NOT in Creation, but believing in Creation doesn't mean you believe in a young earth.

Answer 4

I hope not. I don't. I'm a creationist. I believe God created everything. He is the point of origin.

I believe that this world and the universe is very old. I believe that there were creatures that walked this earth that we can only imagine (or dig up!)

It is a mistake to use the bible as a science manual. It is a book of faith and was never meant to be a book of science.

Those people were not completely concerned with why the sun rose and why it fell. They were concerned with God.

Answer 5

There are young earth creationists and old earth creationists.
One example of an old earth creationist is the astrophysicist Hugh Ross.
http://www.reasons.org/

Answer 6

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Answer 7

I believe the earth is millions of years old but man was created only a couple thousand years ago.

Answer 8

Well it depends. There are literal creationist that abosolutley believe that a day to God is 24 hours, and they believe that.

But then there are creationist that think that a day to God is probably closer to a few billion years, and they don't.

Answer 9

Young earth creationists believe that. There are also old earth creationists who accept the timescale of current scientific thinking.

Answer 10

Yes.

The Universe was created in Six Days

007.054: Your Guardian-Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in six days, and is firmly established on the throne (of authority): He draweth the night as a veil o'er the day, each seeking the other in rapid succession: He created the sun, the moon, and the stars, (all) governed by laws under His command. Is it not His to create and to govern? Blessed be Allah, the Cherisher and Sustainer of the worlds!

"Allah states that He created the universe, the heavens and earth and all that is in, on and between them in six days, as He has stated in several Ayat in the Qur'an. These six days are: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. On Friday, the entire creation was assembled and on that day, Adam was created. As for Saturday, no creation took place in it." - Exegesis of Imam Ibnu Kathir


A Day in the sight of God is equivalent to a thousand years of our reckoning

022.047: Yet they ask thee to hasten on the Punishment! But Allah will not fail in His Promise. Verily a Day in the sight of thy Lord is like a thousand years of your reckoning.

032.005: He rules (all) affairs from the heavens to the earth: in the end will (all affairs) go up to Him, on a Day, the space whereof will be (as) a thousand years of your reckoning.

That would make it a total of 6000 years.

God knows best.

Peace and Love.