Why the Age of the Earth Matters Theologically So let's talk about this for a minute, well aren't we really splitting hairs, does it really even matter what we believe in? Yes, it does, because there are some really important theological implications if we believe in millions of years, so if we take a literal interpretation of Genesis where God created everything in 6 days and stepped back and called it perfect and said behold it is very good, then we have 6 days of creation and then at some point afterwards we have the fall, we have the time where Adam and Eve in their free will chose to go against God, disobeyed and by that disobedience they brought the curse of sin and death onto the earth, that's in Genesis chapter 2 verse 17, and God cursed the earth and said thorns and thistles it shall now produce for you, so we have death and thorns and thistles as a consequence of our sin, and so we have death and suffering are brought into the world by Adam and Eve's sin, it seems like a very clear logical flow, so now we can say hey, death, cancer, disease, blood, suffering, all those things are our fault because our ancient grandparents, Adam and Eve, had a choice, they messed up and death and suffering come as a result of that, that's the logical theological flow from Genesis, but if you take a non -literal interpretation of Genesis we have creation and somehow radiometric dating and how they date index fossils would have millions of years of death, disease, carnivorism and suffering before Adam and Eve were even here to bring the curse of sin and death, so you can see the challenge here, so now we have death and suffering and thorns and thistles that are supposedly existent in the fossil record for millions of years before Adam and Eve were even here to bring the curse of sin and death, so then at some point under the evolutionary timeframe or the theistic evolutionary timeframe we would then have Adam and Eve, then at some point after that we have the fall, which really would have no effect because death, sin, suffering, carnivorism was already here through that evolutionary worldview, and that would of course blame God for death, suffering, blood, bloodshed, cancer, carnivorism, all those things that were here would be part of his initial design, they weren't, God made everything perfect, Adam and Eve named everything, they took dominion of everything and it was after that that the fall came and that's what brought death, suffering, bloodshed and disease, the theistic evolutionary viewpoint has it all backwards, so man's word would say look, time plus death is what led from this shrew like creature millions of years ago that somehow supposedly survived the dinosaur extinction on to mammals and then early man led to homo sapiens, so it would be through that process of time, death, suffering and selection would go from mammals all the way to man, but God's word said that it was sin that brought death and God did not use death to bring new biological life forms here on earth, so when the Bible says that God saw all that he had made and it was very good and we have the garden of Eden here, we can't have them sitting on millions of years of stratified death in the fossil record, it just does not line up with scripture, we can't have a death, pain, millions of years of disease and suffering present before Adam and Eve were even here to bring the fall, okay so we can't have millions of years of these things leading to man's existence and then whereas the Bible says it's sin that's what brought, led to death.
