Can We Determine the Age of the Universe and Earth Biblically?

[Fred]

Do you really think ONE ark was large enough to house Noah's family and....

19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.

22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

Genesis Chapter 7​

1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

Sure.
They could have all been very young and God could have caused them to sleep most of the time.

 

[makesends]

Do you really think ONE ark was large enough to house Noah's family and....

19And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female .

20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.

22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

Genesis Chapter 7​

1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

Not that the literal 6-day'er must believe that "kind" must mean every species, but... If a donkey can be made to talk, and if a serpent can talk, and if God can bring all fact into existence with a word, how is it too hard for him to put every species onto the ark? Yes, I really believe what Genesis says is true.

BTW, I don't agree with you nor @DialecticSkeptic about the 6-day creation, but I'm not a naturalist who thinks as things are now, they have always been. God invented the laws of physics, and he can do with them as he pleases. Yet, to me, hearing what I do from modern physicists, I'm of a mind to think that BOTH can be true, that it take 6 literal days, and eons, to accomplish. Also, I don't believe that a literal rendering of Genesis 1 necessarily means that there was nothing existing but God, before that account begins.

It is one thing to hold to what makes the best logical sense to one's current view of things, but quite another to decide for oneself that it is therefore the only logical possibility. It is particularly dangerous to then teach it as God's Own Truth.