Isaac #fundie yecheadquarters.com
Is the earth really 4.3 billion years old?
Yes. In a sense that God added this age to it so that it would work in a time line formation of how things would have been if the actual time had passed.
Does this explain why everything dates so differently?
Yes. If every object had come from the Big Bang, the dates for each would be much closer together then what we see. You would not have the same matter material on one side of space dating 18 billion years old. While the same matter on the other side only dates 4.3 billion years old. That's a "BIG" difference when it "all" comes from one source of matter. If your were to write out the numbers talked about on a sheet of paper. You would get a better idea of how much time a billion years really is. Science just throws these numbers around like they are nothing. But the magnitude of difference between 4.3 and 18 billion is just two much to comprehend as far as the actual passage of time goes.