What if there were a way to reconcile billions of years with 6000 years?  The topic of time dilation may provide such an opportunity.

Time is generally thought to be constant everywhere; but this is not so.  Time's rate of passage is affected by gravity and velocity, just as weight is relative to gravity.  Perhaps this is easier to understand when one considers that a man weighing 180 pounds on earth weighs 30 pounds on the moon.  This is a result of a weaker gravitational field on the smaller moon.  Likewise, time passes more slowly as the strength of the gravitational field increases.

This is significant when we remember that the Bible says the universe was created, it suddenly came into being.  A tiny instant after the moment of creation the universe could have been very dense and expanding at an incredible velocity.  The combination of the intense gravity and speed work together to make vast ages, according to the perspective of our velocity and gravity, occur in seconds as perceived by the dense creation moving at the unimaginable speed of creation.

From our vantage point the universe has left trail markings that seem to be very old to us, yet Genesis is true in the face of such an apparent contradiction.  Perhaps time dilation helps us to understand why that is.  One thing it does not do, however, is contribute to an old earth whose age is capable of supporting modern evolutionistic claims.  It does, on the other hand, help to reconcile apparent extreme age in the far reaches of the universe.