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You go ahead and rely on scripture. I will rely on what I think is reality.As the book of Genesis details. There were 10 generations before and after the flood. As a result, the earth did not exist billions of years before Adam was created on the 6th day.
But...but.. what about radiometric dating you say? Sorry, it may be a popular belief that radiometric dating proves the earth is old. That's not true at all. The parent daughter relationship to determine rate of decay in a rock uses assumptions that are neither testable or provable. Using faulty assumptions yield faulty time periods.
Not only are flawed assumptions used but Radiometric testing has been proven unreliable.
Examples;
* Mt St Helen's crater in 1996 had so many daughter atoms it was determined to be 350,000 years old.
* Lava flows in New Zealand known to be only 50 years old yet radiometric testing concluded it was 3.5 million years
* Basalt flows atop the Grand Canyon were tested using 3 different dating techniques that calculated 916 million years, 1.143 billion years and 2.6 billion years.
Bottom line. God created the world in 6 days ~4000 years before the birth of Jesus.
The flawed anti-biblical assumptions used to interpret rocks age were the primer to start questioning God's word
Rely on scripture.