I've noticed a trend in the past 20 years or so. People with strong faiths rely on science when it suits them. They rely on science when it has a benefit to their agendas, yet when it comes to science showing the universe's age, or anything else that may disagree with the holy books of many religions, they suddenly don't believe.
I;ve debated people in the past about this very subject. They use T.V.s, computers, medicine that helps cure their ailments, cars, sewing machines, fly in airplanes, blenders, microwave ovens, and the list goes on, but when it comes to the nitty gritty, like carbon dating, or the age of the universe, then the scientist are all of a sudden deceiving lunatics...lol...You can't cherry pick what you believe in. It's a fact that galaxies are billions of light years away. It's a fact that it takes 8 and a half minutes for the sun's light to reach our eyes.
I can go a step further. I've seen debates on Youtube between the two sides, and the religious folks actually use science to make their points. WHAT?....I thought they didn't believe in science. They don't.....but when it benefits them, they'll use it.
I'll give you just one example. I've heard the argument that there exists a light source called a Tachyon light source which supposedly travels faster than the speed of normal light speed. And that's why we can see the distant galaxies within a short time span of 6,000 years. It's a hypothetical particle, and there is absolutely no evidence of it's existence. But this is not the point. Even if it did exist, the mere fact that they use science to debunk the conventional thinking is funny. WHAT? I thought you didn't believe in science. They don't, but use it when it benefits them. And in this case, they were wrong anyways.
Think how rediculous that sounds. When God created the universe, he purposely created a tachyon particle for the Galaxies that are far off, so that their light might reach our eyes faster in a timeline to fit the 6,000 year story. So let me get this straight. It's not bad enough that humanity is confused beyond recognition already. Let's really throw off everyone on Earth by making the universe look younger than it really is, even though God gave them brains to think, and realize the manipulation of matter by the creator. This is just too hilarious.
Science doesn't have the answer to everything, but it's pretty darn close.
People in the early books had no idea of what was going on around them. They had no clue why the moon was sitting up in the sky. One passage from the Bible says......"The moon hangeth upon nothing". They didn't know things float in space. They didn't even know what space was...lol ...Every un-answerable dilemma was related to a God being the reason. Everytime a comet passed by, they thought it was a sign from God. They either celebrated the event, or killed people thinking it was a warning of doom If the wicked people didn't change their ways. If there was a disease, it was because God was sending it t as punishment. They knew nothing of the microbial world.
During the Bubonic plague, it got to a point where folks started freaking out. They had enough. They thought that this was a curse from God, and what they did was to form large groups that paraded throught towns and cities, killing anyone they thought might be the cause of this curse imposed by God. Anyone who was drinking, and having a good time was killed. They even flogged themselves hoping God would see this and spare further destruction.
Most of those questions about the unexplained have been resolved by science. We now know that it wasn't a curse, it was a bacteria that was present in fleas, which still exists today. The rats were carriers of the fleas, which killed one third of Europe.
We now know that comets, asteroids, and meteors which enter our atmosphere aren't signs and wonders. They are natural occurences in space. We now know that the Earth is not the center of the universe. We now know that the Sun is not a God, like the very early Egyptian folks used to think. You think it's a coincidence that my 104 year old Muslim Grandmother faces East and prays 5 times a day. East, where the sun rises. Most of the big religions were actually derived from Sun God egyptian sources. In actuality, the Christian religion among others, were haned down from earlier belief systems. They share the same stories as the Bible, like a man who was killed on a cross then rose 3 days later. And many other stories in the Bible were written long before by others.
Do you know why the term "Sunset" is used? It refers to the two Gods in Egyptian days....Sun, and set. They fought in the sky. When Sun won the battle, it was daytime. When set won, it was dark.
Watch the movie Zeitgeist, It talks in detail about Horus, and how religions were born from the Egyptian Gods.