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

特別是基督教某些教派所持有的信念，聲稱地球

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

比科學共識所暗示的要年輕得多。 根據聖經家譜 和創世記創世記 的字面解釋

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

，追隨者通常認為地球已有 6,000 至

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

10,000 歲 。 這與現有的科學

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

觀點形成鮮明對比，即地球大約有 45.4 億年的歷史，這是通過

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

岩石放射性測年以及已知最早的陸地

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

岩石和隕石測年等方法得出的結論。年輕地球理論是神創論信仰體系的基石，它

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

拒絕接受許多有關地質學、宇宙學和生物進化的現代科學理論。