kraftiekortie wrote:
How old do you believe the Earth is? I believe it is about 4.6 billion years old.
From a scientific standpoint that's its estimated age.
From a couple of creationist theories I know of, there's the gap theory that when genesis took place the earth already existed but was a void wasteland, perhaps through a catastrophe, and from there god reformed it. Which would take into account the fossil record. So there's earth part one and then there's earth part two where genesis picks up.
The other is just as god created man as a fully developed adult, rather than starting him out as a fetus, god also created a fully developed earth. So even though Adam was only a day old he had the attributes of a person who formed over a period of lets say 21 years. Likewise even though the earth was a day old, it had the attributes of however long it would take the earth to develop to that point.