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It is hard to believe that the universe was created 6,000 years ago given the vast expanse of it. It is like looking at the computer screen and insisting that the letters and pictures are tangible, unwilling to accept that there is something much deeper involved, much much deeper and complex on a chip far beyond the screen.

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The Earth was created 6,000 years or so ago, however, the Universe existed before the Earth was created.

It seems, however, that our Solar System, perhaps even our Galaxy was part of the six days of the creation of our planet in relation to the day in which our Sun and our Moon was created.

On March 17, 1998, someone asked an astrophysicist, "How large is the Milky Way?" The response was not one you might have expected: "The disk of the Milky Way galaxy is about 100,000 light years in diameter." That would be 50,000 light years AT LEAST starting from the centre to earth on its periphery. And that is the closest population of stars to us: 100,000 light-years away to the other end.

-- source: http://tinyurl.com/ykkfzbe

I don't believe EVEN YOU are comfortable with the glaring discrepancy between a "scientific" 100,000 years and a "Biblical" 6,000 years.

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The Bible doesn't say that everything was created 6,000 years ago. And given all the exciting events before the creation of the earth, the universe could be much older than the earth.

Before you veer off into speculations about pre-Gen. 1:1, consider carefully that on the FOURTH day, it is written that God created the sun, moon and stars. Note that in the vocabulary of the writer, there is no word for PLANET. Every bright object in the sky was either, sun, moon or star.

Taken literally then, only the sun, moon, some close-by stars and no planets were created 6,000 years ago?

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No.

So when were the planets created, since nothing about planets is mentioned during the fourth day?

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