There are a lot of questions still to be asked...why did the Jews not date their years since the beginning of creation rather than how long they lived? It seems reasonable, knowing that God favored them, that thyey could keep track of years 'from the beginning."
And just a question 'why did God create dinosaur bones?' Since I assume you do not think they ever existed..just a deception? Seems highly unlikely...
There are two creation accounts in the Bible...I think one as I said before (the first account) shows God's perspective and the second how man came into being...the importance of this being that in the first we have not even a mention of man sinning on the sixth day (which I assume you believe he did).
Remember that God the father is outside of time, outside and other than all that He creates...so from his perspective every person and thing is created as a whole--beginning, middle, and end--Jesus says we cannot even add a single moment to our lives, so why worry about food, and clothing? And so when he creates he creates it all beginning, middle and end.
The second account of creation would have to have taken forever if it was a single sun rise and set--which it could have been--but as I said before it would to have been longer than 24 60 minutes ( or Adam experienced life much quicker, which would mean relatively he had longer minutes because he lived more than we can possibly do within each minute)--which no human every counted a day until relatively recently...
Do they add in your church that you have to confess Jesus is Lord and the earth is only "about" 6000 years old to be baptized in your church? Just playing, but even further as a human being even Adam had no time to know how old he was...the earth was 'infinitely older than he was' by the simple fact that it was before he was made...The time before that it was God and the Lord (Jesus) and the Holy Spirit and creation. The ability to put any time other than 'days' to them in unfathomable to a human creature...Yes they were days, but those days have a meaning of their own as they represent change in creation that no man ccould ever experience...
I love Hebrews and I can quote it here, and those who have eyes and minds can understand:
(Here we understand that both 'today' and days mean different things to God, because he is eternal)
Hebrews 3: 13 to 4:11
But exhort each other every day, so long as it is called TODAY, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we share in Christ, if indeed we hold to our original confidence to the end. AS it is said, "Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion." For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? And to whom did he swear they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? So we see they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
Therefore while the promise of entering his rest still stands; let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened. For we who believe enter that rest as he has said "As I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter my rest" although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. For has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: And God rested on the seventh day from all his works. And again in this passage he said, "They shall not enter my rest." Since therefore it remains fpr some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience, again he appoints a certain day, "Today" saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted "Today if you hear his voice do not harden your hearts." For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on. So then there remains a sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his. Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.
Here, we see God and Paul trying to show you that God's creation was made in completion...the seventh day refers to the Lord, you have to know that "it didnt just pass away as what we call days do on the seventh day of creation...Today is not even the same (time span)to God...
God bless and I hope this helps somone...
tony
ps..Are you not feared that you are falsifying or wrongly interpreting the word of God and as someone else has said before me, if the world truly is more than 6000 years old, then you are lying? Not the word of God--you just wouldn't be understanding it right.