I agree. This is one of the things that made me abandon some forms of Protestantism. I don’t hear conservative Catholics or conservative Orthodox people add up the genealogies in Genesis turn the number of years they come up with into an odd test of faith. This business of trying to cram billions of years into a 6000 year-old universe to support someone’s idea of a literal reading of a few Bible verses, to make the Bible “scientific,” is what is unreasonable. And then young people are told they must read these verses literally and any discovery in science could be a dangerous thing that will undermine their faith - that is unreasonable. The Big Bang is not unreasonable at all. God is big enough for a big universe.
I also agree. It seems to me that a search for truth should be the goal of both Christian and science and that the two are not only not mutually exclusive but in fact symbiotic.
it’s more confusing when you consider the fact that a person could literally fill this page with the many different attempts by science at guessing how old the earth is in millions of years...or is it billions...or is it trillions?????
you can not prove anything about the age of the earth but you are against those who are as confused as you??? wow!
most christian teachers that i have heard, teach that MAN was created 6000 years ago...not the earth. Big difference.
Do you believe Adam to be the first man, and that he was created by God?
Your answer will reveal much.