“So how long ago was the earth formed and where do you get that information?”
From the young earth creationists who claim that the earth is around 6000 years old.
Ok, so there were dinosaurs on the ark then? And the Mastodons that they found frozen so quickly that they still had green vegetation in their mouth, when did that happen in the last 6000 years? How about the vast deposits of coal far beneath the surface, that couldn’t have possibly happened during the flood. The 6000 age of the earth is preposterous. While I will agree that carbon dating can be off, it can’t be nearly as far off as the young earthers would need to have it. The earth is much older then 6000 years.
The young earthers would have us believe that an eternal God did nothing prior to 6000 years ago. I can assure you that this earth is much older then that and God created and re-created this world perhaps many times. At least one time that we know of from scripture.