Yes. I grew up in the Dutch Bible Belt, with very strict evangelical parents. They sent me to a Christian school that taught a literal interpretation of the Bible. So I was taught at home, in church, and in school that Earth was created about 6000 years ago.
Not the person you asked, but it’s commonly taught as science in a lot of Christian themed curriculums, including a lot of homeschool programs.
Source: friends who believed it, and seeing the homeschool program of my step-kids. We had to teach facts on the side and introduce them age appropriately to real science.
That Earth was in fact way older than 6000 years.
Did you believe otherwise growing up?
Yes. I grew up in the Dutch Bible Belt, with very strict evangelical parents. They sent me to a Christian school that taught a literal interpretation of the Bible. So I was taught at home, in church, and in school that Earth was created about 6000 years ago.
Some religious people do.
I was a jehova witness an I believed science class was all wrong and that my job was to just get through it without believing it.
Not the person you asked, but it’s commonly taught as science in a lot of Christian themed curriculums, including a lot of homeschool programs. Source: friends who believed it, and seeing the homeschool program of my step-kids. We had to teach facts on the side and introduce them age appropriately to real science.
“It” being Creationism.
Here’s something fun to learn more: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_Museum