Here is a quick summary of the age of the earth, given by Toby J. Sumpter.
Some people playing coy about not knowing if the Bible tells us how old the world is.
Let’s see. Start at the beginning: God counts the first seven days of the world in creation, then He counts all the years of the first 10 generations of human history from Adam to Noah (about 1500 years), and then He counts the next 10 generations from Noah to Abraham (about 650 years). It’s almost like He wants us to count with Him. This brings us to around 1850 B.C.Then God tells Abraham it’ll be 400 years until his descendants inherit the promised land. It’s another 450 years to King David and then another ~500 to the exile of Judah. The Bible says there are 70 years of exile (1 year for every year in the land without sabbath years = 490 years). And then ~400 years until Christ.Add all of that up and you get around 4000 years B.C. And 2000 years since the birth of Christ. The world is around 6,000 years old.And for those people who want to to claim that the Bible doesn’t tell us exactly when God created the Heavens and Earth, only when He started working on the earth, Jesus disagrees: He said that God made Adam and Eve “in the beginning.” And Luke (the careful historian) broadly affirms the Old Testament chronology by giving the genealogy of Jesus back to Adam.
And to reiterate my earlier point, God made the world with certain elements already mature: trees, fruit, the bodies of Adam and Eve, starlight in transit, but most of the crazy geology and fossils got made in Noah’s (worldwide) flood. Yeah, I believe in that too, down to the giraffes sticking their heads out the windows of the ark.
- Adam to Noah — 1,500 years.
- Noah to Abraham — 650, about 1850 B.C.
- Abraham’s descendants wait 400 years to inherit the promised land, about 1450 B.C.
- From inheritance to King David, another 450 years, about 1000 B.C.
- 500 years until the exile of Judah, 500 B.C.
- 70 years of exile, so 430 B.C.
- 400 years of silence until the arrival of Christ.
From James Jordan:
“From a biblical standpoint, however, the whole question must be recast. God scattered humanity at Babel, and the Spirit of God worked rapidly, yea instantly, to create many new languages. We don’t know if Hebrew was set up at that time, or if Hebrew is the primordial language of humanity before Babel. In either event, it was created virtually ex nihilo, either around 4000 BC or around 2150 BC (Babel; cf. Gen. 10:25, 30 and 11:2).20 This being the case, such things as puns and other word-similarities were built into human languages by God, and where these occur in the Bible we ought not to think them adventitious. The words ’adam and ’adamah are indeed related, then, and the motherhood of the soil is in view.”
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