particularly within certain sects of Christianity,  asserting that the Earth is much younger  

than scientific consensus suggests. Adherents  typically believe the Earth to be between 6,000 to  

10,000 years old, based on a literal  interpretation of biblical genealogies  

and the Genesis creation narrative. This  contrasts with the established scientific  

view that the Earth is approximately 4.54 billion  years old, a conclusion reached through methods  

such as radiometric age dating of rocks and  the dating of the earliest-known terrestrial  

rocks and meteorites. The Young Earth Theory is a  cornerstone of creationist belief systems, which  

reject much of modern scientific theory regarding  geology, cosmology, and biological evolution.