Christians, can you honestly believe that the universe is only 4 thousand years old?

There are trees 6800 years old.

I'm a Christian and I definitely do not believe that the universe is only four thousand years old. However, I do believe in the Bible's creation account.

Many people claim that science disproves the Bible’s account of creation. But the real contradiction is between science and, not the Bible, but the opinions of so-called Christian Fundamentalists. Some of these groups falsely assert that according to the Bible, all physical creation was produced in six 24-hour days some 10,000 years ago.

The Bible, however, does not support such a fallacy. If it did, then many scientific discoveries over the past hundred years would indeed discredit the Bible. A careful study of the Bible text reveals no conflict with established scientific facts.

No Christian believes that. And the Bible simply does not state how old the universe is.

After the Earth has been created by God, then come details of six creative time periods called days. Even if a Christian took those to be literal, 24-hour Earth days, that still would not tell them how old the universe is. There are some Christians who think the Earth is 6,000 years old, yet even so, that is not the same as saying the universe is 6,000 years old. But most Christians have no problem with an ancient Earth and an even more ancient Universe. The term 'days' in Genesis can be shown to often mean 24-hour Earth days, but at other times they mean an unspecified time period, or all 6 days of Creation are lumped together and spoken of as one day.

Nope. And being aware of where that calculation came from helps me to know that it wasn't a very good or successful attempt to come up with the age of the universe.

It's a tradition with some Christians, and traditions die hard. I have personally found that the Bible does not tell us how old the earth is.

I believe that the Bible is written from God's perspective regarding the creation account, since He is the only intelligent being involved - up until man arrives. The Bible states, "a day with the Lord is as a thousand years", the quantity "thousand" being a metaphor. Otherwise, it could easily have been a billion. Once man arrived, the perspective changed to counting years in detail as shown by the genealogies.

no, but not billions     

1.     Receding Moon

      750 m.y.a. max

    2.     Oil Pressure

      5,000 - 10,000 years

    3.     The Sun

      1,000,000 years max

    4.     The Oldest Living Thing

      4,900 years max

    5.     Helium in the Atmosphere

      1,750,000 years max

    6.     Short Period Comets

      5,000 - 10,000 years

    7.     The Earth's Magnetic Field

      10,000 years max

    8.     C-14 Dating of Dino Bones

      10,000 - 50,000 years

    9A.  Dino Blood and Old DNA

      5,000 - 50,000 years

    9B.  Unfossilized Dino Bones

      5,000 - 50,000 years

    9C.  165 M.Y.O. Ammonites

      5,000 - 50,000 years

   10.    Axel Heiberg Island

      5,000 - 10,000 years

   11.    Carbon-14 in Atmosphere

      10,000 years max

   12.    The Dead Sea

      13,000 years max

   13.    Niagara Falls

      5,000 - 8,800 years max

   14.    Historical Records

      5,000 years max

   15.    The San Andreas Fault

      5,000 - 10,000 years

   16.    Mitochondrial Eve

      6,500 years

   17.    Population Growth

      10,000 years max

   18.    Minerals in the Oceans

      Various (mostly young) Ages

   19.    Rapid Mountain Uplift

      Less than 10 million years

   20.    Carbon 14 Dating

      10,000 to 50,000 years

   21.    Dark Matter & Spiral Galaxies

      1 million years (max)

   22.    Helium and lead in Zircons

      6,000 years

Not all Christians do. Most Christians, including myself, understand the universe is 13 billion years old (the earth is close to 5).

Could be. No body knows what 4000 years are to God, He lives in Eternity.

Biblical Creationism - The God of the Bible created the different “kinds” of plants and animals to reproduce after their kind (often called “baraminology”; baramin is the Hebrew word for “created kind”). They have great variability and adaptability, but they are still dogs and frogs and bacteria, etc. And there is old earth creationism (the earth is billions of years old) and young earth creationism (the earth is less than 10,000 years old). Creationists typically believe the creation has been tainted by the curse (Genesis 3) and is in a state of progressive degeneration.

101 evidences for a young age of the earth and the universe

http://creation.com/age-of-the-earth

Canis Major Overdensity is the closest galaxy to our Milky Way. It is 25000 light years away. The Andromeda Galaxy is about two million light years away. The farthest galaxy we can detect is over 13 billion light years away.

If we assume that the world is less old that that, then where does the light from the stars in those galaxies come from?

Time is a paradigm based on celestial moments - It is a construct invented by the logicians brain.

So how old are we again?

Archimedes who worked out the solar system over 2,000 years ago (287 BC – c. 212 BC) http://www.antikythera-mechanism.com/

If we know how old the earth is based on some logically derived language (A story we told ourselves), we can't have done because there are planets older that the earth - Do let us know when you reach the edge of the preserve won't you.