Originally Posted by champlain_islander
Age of the earth seems to boil down to science vs religious beliefs fueled by the Bible. There are many religions in the world and most have Bible like books as part of their history. I wonder what these other pieces of literature say about the age of the earth. Do they all claim it is 6000 years old?
We know 6,000 years is wrong, because there have been civilizations that were in full bloom longer ago than that.