I was taught that the earth is, like, 10,000 years old, read lots of books on the subject and such and believed it at one time, but I have to say I don't find the case for it very compelling anymore.  There are plenty of reasons to believe the universe to be older, carbon dating is one but also things like the grand canyon and other rock erosion, this sort of thing happens too slowly to occur in a few hundred years due to flooding as some suggest.  Astronomy also makes a good case for the universe being much older; light from far away galaxies and other celestial bodies takes millions of years to travel here and we can see them.  I'm a Christian but I guess I don't see a reason to think God would set the universe up to appear much older than it is.  It's not really a major theological issue to me at this point.

Smeagol has good points on the matter.

Bloogyo, have you ever researched science? Or did you just take a quick look at it, and decided it was false?

Into the darkness once more. I walk into the unknown. To a far better life than I've ever known.

Our class has been learning about space in general, for the last few weeks!   We've mainly focused on our solar system though.

Anyways, are you counting before the other huge impact with Theia still our planet being formed? Earth only existed for about 10 million years before that happened, so it wouldn't make much difference at all, but still, I'm rather OCD about getting everything just right.