Something for Young Earth Creationists to consider:
Nowhere in the Bible is the age of the Earth mentioned. Not 6,000 years, not 10,000 years. There's is no mention at all. That young age comes from a MAN; A fallible, mortal man called Bishop Usher who did what he reckoned were some good calculations to get it.
So when you're saying that science like evolution, geology or physics cannot disprove God's word...remember that the age of the earth is NOT God's word. It's MAN's word.
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Brady: In fact, he determined that the Lord began the creation on the 23rd of October, 4004 B.C. at, uh, 9 a. m.
Drummond: At Eastern Standard time or Rocky Mountain time? It wasn't daylight saving time, was it because the Lord didn't make the sun until the fourth day.
Drummond: The first day. Was it a twenty-four-hour day?
Brady: The Bible says it was day.
Drummond: There wasn’t any sun. How do you know how long it was?
Brady: The Bible says it was a day.
Drummond: A normal day, a literal day, a twenty-four-hour day?
Brady: I do not know.
Drummond: What do you think?
Brady: I do not think about the things that... I do not think about.
Drummond: Do you ever think about the things that you do think about? Isn’t it possible that first day was a twenty-five hours long? There was no way to measure it, no way to tell. Could it have been twenty-five hours?
Brady: It is ... possible ...
Drummond: Oh. You interpret that the first day recorded in the Book of Genesis could be of indeterminate length.
Brady: I mean to state that the day referred to is not necessarily a twenty- four hour day.
Drummond: It could have been thirty hours! Or a month! Or a year! Or a hundred years! Or ten million years!
No. They were created some time before the first day.
Brady: The Bible says it was day.
So what? What does day mean? Exclusively a literal 24 hour period? Back in the day I worked the day shift 5 days a week. There are three variations in the use of the English word day. A specific period consisting of many days or even years, a period of about 8-12 hours and aliteral 24 hours. And the ancient Hebrew word translated day, yohm? It's used to describe any period of time from a few hours to thousands of years. (Zechariah 14:8; Proverbs 25:13; Psalm 90:4; Isaiah 49:8; Matthew 10:15) And the creation account itself uses the term to mean collectively all six "days" as one day at Genesis 1:3, 5; 2:4 (https://biblehub.com/genesis/2-4.htm) Which is it? 6 or 1?
Additionally the seventh day continues to this day. (Psalm 95:11; Isaiah 40:28; John 5:17; Romans 8:22; Hebrews 4:1-5)
