According to the Bible How Old Is the Earth? How Important Is This? 

The Bible doesn’t say how old the earth is. We know that God made it special. We know he made it in an amazing way—He spoke, and the worlds were made. So, everything that scientist would look at for the ages of the earth are not the things we Christians have our faith tied up in. there will be all kinds of things we do not know.

Sometimes, people will say “if there are all these signs of age how deceptive that would be if we are not really old.” Well, if you really want to get onto that level there are many other classic questions. Did Adam have a navel? Was the sunlight already there or did we have to wait eight and half minutes? Could you see stars, or did you need to wait a few thousand years? Of course, when God makes things, they are adult. There are things which you can call “signs of age” or call them “deceptive” because they are there, or you can say that God made a complete operating system. He made us with minds to understand so we are looking at things to understand how things grow, how trees and rings grow. So, I’m not persuaded that it is deceptive to say that there is a young earth and yet there are legitimate signs of age all around.

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