The Earth is older than the Bible perceives.

Introduction I will be using just a two lines of evidence for my positive case. I will rebut Pro's argument and claims in subsequent rounds. Readers should keep in mind that this debate is concerning the veracity of the approximate age of 6,000 years for the Earth. While the Bible does not explicitly state that the Earth is this age, using scripture as a model for creation, we can easily deduce an approximate age by starting with the beginning of creation, the week Adam and Eve were created along with the entire universe, and adding up the genealogies from Adam to Christ (Genesis 1, Exodus 20:11, Mark 10:6, Luke 3:23-38). When we add up the genealogies we get an estimated age of about 4,000 years, and since its been about 2,000 years since Christ earthly ministry, the age of the Earth must biblically be about 6,000 years old (https://answersingenesis.org...). It is not exactly possible to demonstrate a precise age for the Earth using operational methods, for this reason I shall argue that the Earth is less than 10,000 years old, a drop in the bucket compared to the standard secular date of 4.5Gy. With my lines of evidence I will attempt to set an upper limit for the age of the Earth. Pro must attempt to show that the Earth is older than 10,000 years and I must attempt to show that it is not, plain and simple; here we go! Evidence of an Earth no Greater than 10,000 Years While no form of operational science can give you an exact date for the age of the Earth, it is definitely possible to set upper limits. It can be easily shown via hundreds of lines of evidence that the Earth is not 4.5Gy old, but since this debate is only about the biblical age of the Earth, I must demonstrate evidence which sets an upper limit to the Earth's age at less than 10,000 years. In doing so, I will not be proving, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the Earth is ~6,000 years old, but rather I will be showing that what we can gather from scientific data is consistent with such an age and refutes an older Earth. I will expand on my simple presentations of evidence for a young Earth in the following round. Evidence #1 - Helium in Precambrian Zircons Very simply, there should be no detectable helium left in Precambrian granite zircons if the Earth is 4.5Gy old. Helium is a very "slippery" atom and can easily escape the zircon crystals, especially when found in rocks at such depths as temperatures are extremely hot and cause the atoms to vibrate and more readily escape the crystals. By measuring the diffusion and retention rates of helium in these zircons, we get an age of 6,000 (± 2,000) (http://www.creationresearch.org...). Evidence #2 - Argon in Precambrian Feldspar A type of feldspar known as microcline is also found alongside zircons in Precambrian granite. These feldspar are found to contain argon which, as helium, is also very "slippery." By measuring the diffusivity of the argon isotopes in these feldspar, as well as the amount of retention, it is shown that this granite must be 5,100 (+3,800/-2,100), thus corroborating the helium-in-zircon evidence (http://creation.com...). Using just these two simple lines of evidence it can be demonstrably shown that the Earth is ~6,000 years old. On to Pro.