Originally posted by KellyJay
I leave room for me being wrong about how old I think the universe is. If you cannot do that
you are more of true believer than I ever was about anything.
For us it is not a matter of faith. There are an infinite number of faiths in religions around the world, and a lot of them do not assign 6000 years to the age of Earth.
We rely on scientific evidence. If, for instance, we come across a parakeet 400 million years old, a fossil from that era, evolution gets thrown out the window. Till then, we think evolution tells the correct story and one of those tells is Earth being billions of years old.
If evidence comes along like that, we can entertain the idea of a young Earth.
Till then it is only you and your ilk who thinks Earth is only a few thousand years old.
We don't even say with certainty the Earth is a few billion years old, but all the scientific evidence dug up and radioactive testing and so forth, tests from a dozen science disciplines, all point to a 4 billion year old Earth.
WE can change our minds. You cannot, EVER, for fear of losing the underpinnings of your religion.
It is YOU who are stuck in the mire of religion, one kind of religion at that.