The date of creation is not apparent in the text of the Bible. There is no explicit information on the age of the earth in the text. Different scholars have claimed significantly different dates based on a variety of methods, none of which is generally or broadly accepted by Bible scholars.

I cannot recall it saying anywhere!

Biblical Scholars take things in the Bible like genealogies to ESTIMATE time. They tend to say the Earth is between ten and six thousand years old.

Creation was in 3760BC according to traditional Jewish sources or 4004BC according to Archbishop Ussher in thev C17th.Ussher's age is the most famous of many Christian calculations on this subject. Modern Christian Fundamentalists differ on how best to add up the genealogies between Adam and Jesus. Some claim that there may be some gaps, although these would have to be small or they would render the genealogy meaningless. When this is taken into account an age of between 6,000 and 10,000 years old is worked out. http://www.religioustolerance.org/ev_date.htm

The Bible has nothing to say on the age of the earth.

Anywhere between 6,000 and 10,000 years old. The Posterchild for Creationist Stupidity (PCS) seems to think it's closer to 6,000, if that means anything (probably doesn't). Try to ignore that this number is off by a factor of about 400,000.

"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." Sometime after that, according to the account, he started doing other things, including developing the earth in preparation for life. Bottom line, the Bible doesn't say when "the beginning" was.

It IS billions of years old...it would have to be to account for mountains being eroded and the proof of long dead dinosaurs... It is MAN who has a short history on the earth...since Adam and Eve...about 8,000 years... Genesis ch.5...Matthew ch. 1 and luke ch. 3

Bible does not say how old the earth is. "In the beginning God created the heavens and earth..." Bible does not say when that beginning was.

It doesn't say, but the Bible says that a "day" to God is like a thousand years to us. So the earth is probably a lot older than some believe.

That depends who you read the Bible with.

The Bible has never expressed an age. Only people, whether of a religious or scientific bent, have given conjecture on the earth's age.

the Bible states that the earth is about 6000 years old . Beggining of time 6 Days time in garden of Eden: unknown (a few sources say 7 years others a couple days. after garden to flood: around 1667 years Years to Christ around 2400 Years from Christs birth 2009 ish. . so around 6000 years have transpired. please take into account in geneology that birthdays add or subtract parts of a year. please note that the birth of christ is debated within 6 years (majorly) and leap year and extra day...etc.but this is around about. . +3

Some religions promote the idea that all physical creation was accomplished in just 6 days sometime withing the past 6,000 to 10,000 years. But, the facts disagree with such a conclusion: (1) Light from the Andromeda nebula can be seen on a clear night in the northern hemisphere. It takes about 2,000,000 years for that light to reach the earth, indicating that the universe must be at least millions of years old. (2) End products of radioactive decay in rocks in the earth testify that some rock formations have been undisturbed for billions of years. Genesis 1:3-31 is not discussing the original creation of matter or of the heavenly bodies. It describes the preparation of the already existing earth for human habitation. This included creation of the basic kinds of vegetation, marine life, flying creatures, land animals, and the first human pair. All of this is said to have been done within a period of six “days.” However, the Hebrew word translated “day” has a variety of meanings, including ‘a long time; the time covering an extraordinary event.’ (Old Testament Word Studies, Grand Rapids, Mich.; 1978, W. Wilson, p. 109) The term used allows for the thought that each “day” could have been thousands of years in length.

if you add up the genealogies in genesis then add the years in Egypt and the years until the temple was built by Solomon, then add a thousand years or so to that (the temple is thought to be build around 1000B.C. or so) then another 2009 to bring us to the present you get somewhere over 6000 years. but there is reason to believe that the there is gaps in genealogy and it only gives names of certain representatives of an era. so the bible doesn't really give an age, but it's been here as long as man.

There is no accurate way of determining the age of the earth from the information provided in the Bible.

AS WITH other things that are misrepresented or misunderstood, the first chapter of the Bible deserves at least a fair hearing. The need is to investigate and determine whether it harmonizes with known facts, not to mold it to fit some theoretical framework. Also to be remembered, the Genesis account was not written to show the “how” of creation. Rather, it covers major events in a progressive way, describing what things were formed, the order in which they were formed and the time interval, or “day,” in which each first appeared. When examining the Genesis account, it is helpful to keep in mind that it approaches matters from the standpoint of people on earth. So it describes events as they would have been seen by human observers had they been present. This can be noted from its treatment of events on the fourth Genesis “day.” There the sun and moon are described as great luminaries in comparison to the stars. Yet many stars are far greater than our sun, and the moon is insignificant in comparison to them. But not to an earthly observer. So, as seen from the earth, the sun appears to be a ‘greater light that rules the day’ and the moon a ‘lesser light that dominates the night.’—Genesis 1:14-18. The first part of Genesis indicates that the earth could have existed for billions of years before the first Genesis “day,” though it does not say for how long. However, it does describe what earth’s condition was just before that first “day” began: “Now the earth proved to be formless and waste and there was darkness upon the surface of the watery deep; and God’s active force was moving to and fro over the surface of the waters.”—Genesis 1:2.