I also believe this to be true. If God is eternal, than where is the problem with believing the earth is 5 billion years old? Just because humans can barely grasp that number, doesn't make it impossible. 5 billions years would seem like a blink of an eye to an eternal God. Now although this seems to contradict Genesis at first, I don't see it that way. You can take the 7 days of Gods creation literally, but through time and translations of words from hebrew, to greek, to the languages we have now, those 7 days representing periods make a lot of sense. A day is an earthly measurement of time using the suns cycle of setting and rising. A day could mean something much different if we were on another planet or celestial body or even just floating through space. People back then had no knowledge of the theory of relativity.
Also, the seven days of creation are amazingly similar to how science tries to explain evolution through the big bang theory. How could they just come up with this thousands of years ago and it actually still makes sense today?
Light(Day 1), Gas/Water/Vapor(Day 2), solids(Day 3), stability of celestial bodies(Day 4), sea creatures and birds(Day 5), land animals then man(Day 6). Then God rested ( Day 7). People would of had to receive some kind of knowledge not from this world so long ago to get this correct.
Also, the seven days of creation are amazingly similar to how science tries to explain evolution through the big bang theory. How could they just come up with this thousands of years ago and it actually still makes sense today?
Light(Day 1), Gas/Water/Vapor(Day 2), solids(Day 3), stability of celestial bodies(Day 4), sea creatures and birds(Day 5), land animals then man(Day 6). Then God rested ( Day 7). People would of had to receive some kind of knowledge not from this world so long ago to get this correct.