We are in the year 5782 in the Jewish calendar. It represents the number of years since the creation based on the ages of people in the Bible. This would put creation in 3761 BC (that is, 5782-2021). However, others using various biblical texts calculated this differently. For Luther the creation occurred in 3961 BC. For Kepler it was 3993 BC. For Josephus it was 5555 BC.
Robert Carter gives reasons for these discrepancies in his Origins interview. At about 23:00 in the video he offers as an estimate 4220 BC as the year of Creation using the Masoretic text. This estimated date has a range from 3822 BC to 4339 BC. If that estimated date is correct, the earth would be about 6241 years old within a range from 5843 to 6360 years old.
Chris Hardy and Robert Carter present this in more detail in their article The biblical minimum and maximum age of the earth.
Given these estimates of the age of the Earth we can construct more detailed chronologies of when things happened. Those with competing chronologies can do the same with their estimates. The problem with having a very old estimated age of the Earth is that we also know rates of erosion or entropy. The older the estimated age, the more likely it will be falsified by some rate of decay. For example, a fossil cannot be older than the time it would take for erosion to wash the fossil away.
The Biblical account also provides the means by which the Earth (and universe) began. God was responsible through creation meaning there was an all-powerful intelligence right at the beginning.
Those who reject such a starting point need to come up with some plausible way for the universe that we see today to even be here. They need to provide a coherent explanation of a starting point and identify mechanisms for any evolutionary steps taking us from that starting point to our current state before entropy of some sort washes it all away.
Weekly Bible Reading: Ezekiel (Audio)
10 Cheshvan, 5782, Lech-Lecha: Parashat Genesis 12:1-17:27; Haftarat Isaiah 40:27-41:16
Commentaries:
David Pawson, Ezekiel, Part 42 and Part 43, Unlocking the Bible
Bible Project, Ezekiel (1-33)
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 
Good morning brother. Very well articulated. Thanks for the resources.
Blessings for a stunning Sunday.
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Thank you and blessings, Michael!
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Interesting read on what clues are chosen and followed in dating the earth. Have a blessed Lord’s Day, Frank.
pax,
dora
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Thank you, Dora! And blessings!
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The rationale regarding the Biblical Age of Earth has fewer holes in it than an Earth millions, or billions, of years old.
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The age of the Earth given by the Bible is a coherent and consistent explanation for why we are here. It even accounts for the evil we see in the world. It has fewer holes in it, as you say, than deep time speculations. Thank you, Oneta!
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Listened to the whole interview, that was very informative with how years are thought of and how time are measured and also gaps and genealogies
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There are a lot of places for slippage in those dates, but they are all relatively close together. The difference in the time of the sojourn in Egypt most interests me at the moment.
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👍👍👍👍🙂
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