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=== Widespread Historical Acceptance of Biblical Account ===
=== Widespread Historical Acceptance of Biblical Account ===
{{See also|Earth age opinions of prominent Christians - pre-1800|Scriptural geologists}}
For most of recorded history humans of many backgrounds, such as the first-century [[historian]] [[Flavius Josephus]],<ref name="FLuke2007">{{cite journal |title=Josephus says, ‘Genesis means what it says!’ |author=Frank Luke |journal=Creation |publisher=CMI |issue=29 |volume=3 |pages=15–17 |date=June 2007 |url=https://creation.com/josephus-says-genesis-means-what-it-says |quote=Josephus ... explicitly states that man had been around for only 3,000 years by the time of Moses. |accessdate=1 Oct 2017}}</ref> St. Barnabas and St. Irenæus,<ref>Burnet, p. 259.</ref> viewed the age of the Earth to be around 6,000 years.<ref>Burnet, p. 258.</ref>
For most of recorded history humans of many backgrounds, such as the first-century [[historian]] [[Flavius Josephus]],<ref name="FLuke2007">{{cite journal |title=Josephus says, ‘Genesis means what it says!’ |author=Frank Luke |journal=Creation |publisher=CMI |issue=29 |volume=3 |pages=15–17 |date=June 2007 |url=https://creation.com/josephus-says-genesis-means-what-it-says |quote=Josephus ... explicitly states that man had been around for only 3,000 years by the time of Moses. |accessdate=1 Oct 2017}}</ref> St. Barnabas and St. Irenæus,<ref>Burnet, p. 259.</ref> viewed the age of the Earth to be around 6,000 years.<ref>Burnet, p. 258.</ref>
*[[Counterexamples to an Old Earth]]
*[[Counterexamples to an Old Earth]]
*[[Arguments for a recent creation]]
*[[Arguments for a recent creation]]
*[[Literalist Bible chronology]]
*[[Literalist Bible chronology]]