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Originally Posted by Pat Babaz

Math geek, as a Christian myself I have a hard time answering skeptics who question why Bible says the world is only about 10,000 years old and also why dinosaurs are not mentioned in the Bible. You seem very well versed in the word, how would you answer those questions?

Does the bible actually say the world is only 10,000 years old?

I've always taken Genesis as metaphorical, not realistic. By that, I mean that the 7 days may not necessarily have been 7 days. I've had many, priests and scientists alike, more or less agree with that idea. Days to God may have been a millenia. The story was obviously passed down, because there was no one to write it down as it happened. Could anyone back then have fathomed what 1000 years was like, or a million? Heck, people now only live 100 years, if you're lucky. Back then, they lived to be what, 30 or 40? So perhaps when the story was given by God to be written down, it was told as if it took him 7 days to make the world. That is much easier to comprehend. In the context of a year, that is not a long time. It didn't take him a long time to make everything, within the context of how old the world actually is.

Maybe that makes sense, maybe it doesnt. But that is how I look at things, as a scientist.

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