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Young earth vs Old earth?

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Ya’ll been talking about what Apple Sky believes quite long enough here, and dragging this thread off topic. Please get back on topic to what our new friend wants us to discuss, which is the biblical basis for either young or old earth. Thanks!

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The bible could mean not literal 6 days, maybe they were like times not days.
In any case God created everything but for me old earth could still be biblical, and makes more sense.
Things like, light of stars could have not reached us, if the world was 6000 years.
Those layers of 'mud' geologist investigate etc, that makes sense formed with a lot of time.
 
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The bible could mean not literal 6 days, maybe they were like times not days.
In any case God created everything but for me old earth could still be biblical, and makes more sense.
Things like, light of stars could have not reached us, if the world was 6000 years.
Those layers of 'mud' geologist investigate etc, that makes sense formed with a lot of time.
The thing about starlight is that if it reached earth in the time earth ticked off 4 days, it could have taken millions or billions of relative years in that amount of time on earth.

On the mud layers, it doesn't make sense to me that millions of years were required to lay down layers on earth, especially when some fossils ("polystrate") transcend layers. Since there are such things, the long ages required for each layer makes little sense.

Dinosaur soft tissue is another topic that doesn't make sense with millions of years of the dinosaurs being buried and surviving as soft tissue.

None of that is on the topic of the biblicity of one or the other. But when the bible talks about "ancient" times, it seems to refer mostly to something within it's own timeline, and commensurate with 6000 or so years.
 
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