The current series by Mark Snoeberger about this subject made me think that this would be a great poll question.
I was influenced by Henry Morris, who suggested the earth was perhaps 10,000 years old. Since Ken Ham has become popular, the new creationist party line has returned to Bishop Ussher's chronology, setting the date for creation at 4004 B.C. This, of course, raises both historical and textual questions. How dependable are the numbers/ages in the genealogies? Are these merely highlight descendants, or a complete list? How do we account for the differing numbers (regarding age) between the LXX and the Masoretic text?
A lot to talk about here, is there not? We are talking about what we believe to be true, not what we know as a fact. This is about opinion and conclusions we may have drawn, even if loosely.
Orthodox Judaism puts our year as 5782, under 6 K a bit, FYI.
Run with the ball in any of these directions, if you wish. But here is a bit of advice: keep it brief, to the point, and be thrifty with links. You can, however, comment in more detail if you wish by discussing the first (and forthcoming) article by Mark Snoeberger. That would be a great place for debating and arguing on behalf of your viewpoint. This is more of a survey to see where SI participants stand on this issue.
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Important to know! Scofield's view was regarded as orthodox
Scofield's gap theory was considered orthodox fundamentalism for decades.
Image from Old Scofield (1909) here:
https://twitter.com/jrpeet/status/1448403994531938304
AIG has boxed us in to thinking that any view other than their's is heresy
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Daniel Wonderly (Old Earth view)
Daniel Wonderly (Old Earth view):
https://biologos.org/series/science-and-the-bible/articles/old-earth-pro...
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_E._Wonderly
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Is YEC "crucial to the gospel of Jesus Christ"?
https://biologos.org/articles/the-bible-rocks-and-time-christians-and-an...
My take is that the earth is
My take is that the earth is probably older than 6,000 years. I think it is a weak approach to add up geneologies and use that as an age. Especially when we have proof that geneologies had gaps and/or sometimes overlaps (i.e. coregency of the kings of Israel). The purpose of the geneologies was not to define specific dates but to show lineage. I would agree that it is most likely not millions of years old. I would have to potentially fall in the 7,000 to 25,000 grouping, but again, I am not dogmatic on that. It couldn have been longer.