Evidence for God

Actually, I went with some friends as a little boy to a Baptist Church that was right behind Slidell High School. They took me to Sunday School and the teacher was busy adding up how old the earth was based on some OT passage telling how old people were. I'll never, ever forget that they were proving that the world was definitively created 5000 years BC.

Even at 6 or 7, that seemed rEdiculous.

That way of calculating it is presumptuous because it assumes that a very short time passed between the creation of Adam and Eve and the Fall. We don't know how long they lived in the garden (thousands of years, maybe more?) before the temptation. It also doesn't tell us how much time passed between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2. (see Gap Theory)