1. Hinduism has one cycle of time of 4,320,000, with 1,000 cycles in a day in the life of Brahma with the same amount of time per night. Brahma was said to have lived 864,000,000,000 years.
2. Rome and Greece had "Great Years" of about 36,000 years each.
3. Christians such as Theophilus of Antioch 115-181 AD rejected Plato's assertion of 20,000,000 years from the Flood until the present and Egyptian Apollonius who said 155,625 years. Also, Pythagoras said there was a spontaneous production of all things.
4. Irenaeus and Lactantius believed that Jesus would return when the world was 6,000 years old.
From Australian David Green in Creation Magazine 1998. AiG on David Green: "Many claim that Genesis was based upon borrowed pagan ideas. In reality, the Genesis account of recent creation is in direct opposition to pagan long-age superstitions."
The long story of long ages - creation.com
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The Long Story of Long Ages
It would go to point that believers should read Genesis 1:1-2:3 because that is where the chapter should have ended before starting the next chapter in regards to the next topic about where all the generations of mankind had come from which is a rehashing of the 6th day of creation but in more detail starting at Genesis 2:4.
Genesis 1:1 is the topic while the following verses explains how this had all happened.
Genesis 1:2-5 has the earth not created yet. So the first day was about the first day being created in creation by citing there was evening & morning the first day; hence the beginning has begun.
Genesis 1:6-8 is the beginning of the earth being created as a water planet on the second day.
Genesis 1:9-13 is the complete creation of the earth the third day with land.
Genesis 1:14-19 was when God created the heavens with their bodies of light to give light to the earth to govern the times, & season that fourth day. That means the sun & moon & the stars were not there until the fourth day when God created the heavens to give light to the earth that day. That means He filled the gap with their lights to start governing the earth that day.
So regardless of how fast light travels, there is evidence of maturity & intelligent design in the nature of creation in setting it up to run. No one can say God is deceptive when both the first man was an adult & had knowledge to understand God just as woman came along and had instant knowledge to understand Adam when he had spoken.
Creation of plant life as full grown and bearing fruits & seeds is also proof of maturity & intelligence in design in setting up to run before for the coming of animals & mankind to eat from on land.
When you read Genesis 2:1-3, you see the conclusion of Genesis 1:1 in how God created the heavens & the earth.
Science cannot confirm their dating methods & when they have errant dating results as proven within history, like a living mollusks carbon dated as 2,300 years old dead, then no one should be accepting any timetable coming from the evolution theory at all when going beyond known human history as set forth by the Bible's timeline of 6,000 years per genealogy.
That genealogy began in Genesis 2:4-25 which was before the fall.
The Bible is Israel's family roots being given to Israel as inspired by God thru the Holy Spirit in Moses & other prophets for Israel to know where they had come from and the God Whom they serve,
Important to note that no one, not even the animals, ate flesh for meat but herbs for meat per Genesis 1:29-30 It was after the flood that certain animals & man given flesh as meat to eat. Genesis 9:1-3 .
Just as a mist watered the entire earth in Genesis 2:5-6 before it rained for the first time at the time of the global flood in Genesis 7:11-12
What does that mean? Well, science discovered that the moon is slowly moving away from the earth. When we accept the word of God as is true, then the asteroid impacts on the moon & on he earth happened at the time of the global flood. The impact on the moon started at the global flood as it moves away from the earth, then the tide rises along with the first time the condensation of the mist into rain clouds to rain for the first time & has set that pattern for rain as the moon continues to move slowly away from the earth.
Then you have the asteroid impacts on the earth for why the fountains of the deep rose up from beneath the earth & flooded the earth as per Genesis 7:11-12 also..
You will find fossilized land animals with fossilized whale bones & marine life on the Andes Mountaintops buried together.
Plus the one land mass started on the third day; Genesis 1:9-10 & the one land mass was divided in the days of Peleg. after the flood in Genesis 10:25. So that mean the seas was all in one place and the one land mass was bigger than it was today. Truth by His words testify that the western hemisphere & the eastern hemisphere was once one land continent. So the fabled sinking of Atlantis also hints of how the land was divided in the days of Peleg but on a greater scale. It would cause a tsunamis coming from the one place where all the seas was hence the Pacific basin, rushing over Mexico, and hitting the once lush Sahara with such a force, that when it receded, it took a lot of topsoil & vegetation & people back into the dropped region of the then formed Atlantic Ocean. That means the Ice Age following the flood in serving a man bridge was not how mankind had colonized the western hemisphere because the one land mass was still there after the flood but before the days of Peleg.
We all prophesy in part & know in part but we can know from His words how old the earth & the heavens are from His words with His help & wisdom to understand His words for the way it is written for us to know the truth..