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I've read every verse in the Bible at least once and, while I don't pretend to remember every verse, I don't understand how anyone can estimate the age of the Earth using the Bible. I want to be clear: I am not saying the Earth isn't young. Nor am I saying that it isn't old. Simply that I don't understand how anyone can estimate the age of the Earth by reading the Bible. Many genealogies don't list every single person in the family. They're not necessarily incomplete; just a different type of genealogy than we'd use today. We also don't have the age at death of everyone listed in a genealogy. So how do people estimate the age of the Earth using the Bible?