Don't fret Jdawg. There's quite a few that do not buy this 6000 year old earth idea.
If you have never read any of St. Augustine's "City of God" Give it a read. He didn't buy into it either and that was almost 1600 years ago and we still have people spouting off that the earth is only 6000 years old.
One of the things I get looks on when I ask concerning the following:
Genesis Chapter 1:
26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
and then in Chapter 2:
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
6But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
7And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
8And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
and in Genesis Chapter 3:
23Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Kinda gives me the impression that Adam was not the first man. His chosen one? Okay, but was he really the first man? Want to get some looks ask that question. Or just sit back and the watch the fireworks this post is going to set off