if one believes n creationism, does one also believe the earth is6000 years old?

I believe that the earth is around 6000 years old, because we have to consider those who lived before the Flood. Also carbon dating may not be accurate and may only be accurate for a short period of time. Much of the confusion is because about 5000 or more years ago, the Earth was ripped by a violent Flood, where the waters that surrounded Earth (now the Van Allan belt) descended down and the waters that were under the Earth came from underneath, and probably crushed and fused many a body so they were now unrecognizable. You also have to have common sense. Much of what we know is recorded in the Bible, and what we learned from our families and literature. Also the population of this planet would be too much and even the deserts would be inhabited, there would be millions of people living in the Antarctic and other arid areas. So if the world was billion of years old, there would be too many people even with wars to get rid of the excess. And if one went through all the geneologies from Adam to Christ, one would discover the Earth is relatively new. Einstein theory is illogical. God placed the stars and planets where they stand now.

Dear fightingistheonlyway, I post this because of your insistance to ignore some basic rules of Bible interpretation. Contrary to what you thin, the Bible does not state clearly that the universe is 6000 years old. The Hebrew original -the only resource we shoud consult in discussing the Old Testament-, uses the vocable "yom" when narrating of creation in Genesis, chapter 1. Traditionally, "yom" has been translated as "day" and previous generations concluded -like famous Bishop Usher- that God created Earth in six days. But "yom" also has the following meanings, according to Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of Bible (a 19th century scholar who invented the numbered root system of Hebrew and Greek): day, age, agone, chronicle, season, process of time, space of time... and a whole lot more). Knowing what we know today -by means of astronomy, geology, anthropology, archaeology- there is really no reason to sustain that the Bible insist in 24 hour days, but every reason to insist that the Univers is God's creation. How the Lord choose to make it -by Big Bang, for instance- and how long it took him -who is eternal and does not exist in time-, that's a question for those who like to discuss details. I myself accept what science found out till today and expect more interesting findings in the near future.

I have studied Oceanogrophy, and the earth being 4.5 billion years old fits in with Plate Techtonics, which shows that the sea floor, & the continents have moved very slightly over these years. If you look at maps of the different continents you can see where some of the land fits in quite well and that most of the continents were joined together at one time. There is a period that Carbon Dating becomes uncertain, which some scientists conclude that this may have been because of a nuclear type explosion in the very distant past which had a sudden increase in the amount of Carbon 14.

I almost saddens me to see certain religious people as so scientifically inaccurate. I do believe in creationism. I also believe in evolution. I do not view the Bible as the here all and end all. Furthermore, if scientific studies countered my long held beliefs, I would have to admit that the beliefs are illogical. I find Bible worship to be very sad and scary.

Between the God created the hevens and the Earth, and if you read carfully the recreation of earth and the first day, there is no time period, It may have been nillions of yerars between the beginnig and the first day. Only a very nieve person would say the earth is only 6000 years old and it is these people who bring so much critisem to beleivers of Creation, further more they beleive in 6 literal days to creat all. Some day I will go in to this and show how science and the story of creation can be rectified togethr, Science proving or at least not at odds with creation.

The Bible does not state that the earth is 6,000 years old. These were calculations made by men who tried to use Biblical reference to age the world. Incidentally, man also originally wrongly calculated the year of Jesus' birth. You can absolutely believe in the truth of the Bible and believe the earth is older than 6,000 years. The Bible is infallible; man is not.