YECers...how could the Earth be 6,000 years old?

It cannot. It is absurd and I am embarrassed for anyone who claims it is.

But more importantly, that is an awesome avatar.

/Tuxies!

It's not 6,000 years old. That number is loosely based on the Biblical genealogies of Genesis 5 & 11, as well as other information provided in the Bible.

It is true, however, that God has given a Biblical Calendar in the Bible which includes enough information to establish a time-line of Earth's history.

Some have analyzed this information and have come to the conclusion that earth was created in 4004 BC.

However, this does not give enough time for the events in the Bible and the events in written history to have taken place. So, many people have reviewed the works done on the Biblical time-line.

Interestingly, a little more than 30 years ago, something was discovered in the phrasing of Genesis 5 and 11 that helped to reestablish the Biblical Calendar. This discovery is of utmost importance.

After careful study, it can be shown that the Earth was created in 11,013 BC and that the flood took place in 4990 BC. This calendar is in perfect agreement with written history and Biblical history.

If you would like to see how this information was extracted from the Bible, please, check out this link http://the-latter-rain.com/earths-timeline-introdu... or read or download the free book entitled "The Biblical Calendar of History" here: http://www.familyradio.com/graphical/literature/fr...

As for a Biblical look at the Theory of Continental Drift, check out this link http://the-latter-rain.com/continental-drift.html

It is interesting to see that the Mayan calendar began (3114 BC) in the same time period that the Bible records God supernaturally dividing the whole Earth, in the days of Peleg the son of Eber (3153-2914 BC). This event is recorded in Genesis 11.

According to the Genesis in the days of Peleg the earth was divided. Genesis 10:25.

The word translated "divided" is used only a few times in the Old Testament, including a parallel passage in I Chronicles 1:19. Interestingly, the name Peleg is quite similar to the Hebrew word "divided" (Palag). According to the book of Jasher, which is a book like Genesis but with much more detail, it says in 7:19.

These are the generations of Shem; Shem begat Arpachshad and Arpachshad begat Shelach, and Shelach begat Eber and to Eber were born two children, the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the sons of men were divided, and in the latter days, the earth was divided.

during the catabal, the earths plates were divided, the plates often shift and that causes Tsunamis and earthquakes, the earth is much older than 6,000 years old, it should be about 6 million or more years old, remember one day with God is as a thousand years with man.

We kind of go by the Hebrew calendar 24 Nisan, 5771

They're just going to show their ignorance of plates by saying it was a sudden movement during the flood.

You don't have to be brain of the month to know the Earth is millions of years old.

This flexible use of the word “day” to express units of time of varying length is clearly evident in the Genesis account of creation. Therein is set forth a week of six creative days followed by a seventh day of rest. The week assigned for observance by the Jews under the Law covenant given them by God was a miniature copy of that creative week. (Ex 20:8-11) In the Scriptural record the account of each of the six creative days concludes with the statement: “And there came to be evening and there came to be morning” a first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth day. (Ge 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 23, 31) The seventh day, however, does not have this ending, indicating that this period, during which God has been resting from his creative works toward the earth, continued on. At Hebrews 4:1-10 the apostle Paul indicated that God’s rest day was still continuing in his generation, and that was more than 4,000 years after that seventh-day rest period began. This makes it evident that each creative day, or work period, was at least thousands of years in length. As A Religious Encyclopaedia (Vol. I, p. 613) observes: “The days of creation were creative days, stages in the process, but not days of twenty-four hours each.”—Edited by P. Schaff, 1894.

The entire period of the six time units or creative “days” dedicated to the preparation of planet Earth is summed up in one all-embracing “day” at Genesis 2:4: “This is a history of the heavens and the earth in the time of their being created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.”

Man’s situation does not compare with that of the Creator, who does not reside within our solar system and who is not affected by its various cycles and orbits. Of God, who is from time indefinite to time indefinite, the psalmist says: “For a thousand years are in your eyes but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch during the night.” (Ps 90:2, 4) Correspondingly, the apostle Peter writes that “one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.” (2Pe 3:8) For man, a 1,000-year period represents some 365,242 individual time units of day and night, but to the Creator it can be just one unbroken time period in which he begins the carrying out of some purposeful activity and brings it on to its successful conclusion, much as a man begins a task in the morning and concludes it by the day’s end.

Jehovah is the Originator of our universe in which time, space, motion, mass, and energy have all been proved to be inescapably interrelated. He controls them all according to his purpose, and in dealing with his creatures on earth he makes definite time appointments for his own actions toward them, right down to the “day and hour.” (Mt 24:36; Ga 4:4) He keeps such appointments with the utmost punctuality.

All the education in the world doesn't seem to mean a thing. Just close your mind to what you learn and keep believing.

Even more importantly how do they explain the human history that stretches more than 6000 years.

Goddidit.