That date was worked out by Irish Archbishop James Ussher using information gleaned from the Bible and announced that: 'The time and date of the creation was the entrance of the night preceding the 23rd day of October... the year before Christ 4004" or in other words around 6pm on 22 October 4004 BC.
That would make today the Earth's 6027th Birthday if we ignore all the scientific evidence and go with the whole Universe wasn't created by the Big Bang and all the creatures, including us, evolved from single cell organisms and instead the Earth and everything on it was made by God in six days because he put his feet up on Day 7 which as it turns out, was a bit of a mistake.
Instead of resting he could have made sure that the top layer had set properly and wouldn't crack and not fit together and slide around causing massive quakes or decided that things with big claws, poisonous fangs or sharp pointy teeth and stingers were not the best idea and after all his hard work making the Universe and blowing up some human shaped dirt pile to create man, why then build an apple tree with apples that will show mankind the difference between Good and Evil and get them kicked out of Paradise and why call it the Tree of Knowledge, why not the Tree of Stupidity or the Tree of Curses?
Obviously, as with all things Christian, the story was pilfered almost entirely from elsewhere, the Persians Avesta in this case, but that doesn't seem to put many Christian's off and they will absolutely 100% guarantee that God made the Earth and God is love and not in any way responsible for the suffering in the world.
If they focus on that then they are not thinking too hard about the icky business of the many, many generations of incest that followed those first 2 humans.
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