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I've since done a bit of research on the topic and have concluded that the bible doesn't even try to tell us how old the earth is. So you see in this example scientific arguments of the earth being 2 to 5 billion years old really didn't do much to threaten my faith, rather they refined it as I think I now have a more accurate understanding of scripture.
The Bible gives us a chronological account of the generations of humans back through Adam which it claims to be the first human. He was created the sixth day of creation. The animals {land creatures}were also created that same day.
A careful reading of the text of day four reveals that the 24 hour day as we know it was established by the creation of the sun at some period of day four. So nobody knows by what measurement days were measured on days one, two, three and the part of day four before the sun actually was created. I've never encountered any of my fellow creationists who have ever taken this into account. My point is that this implies that there was a supernatural light from the Holy Spirit (who the text says was present in the creating process) being present.
But getting back to Yaro's question:
1. There were no eye witnesses of either ideologies.
2. To prove creationism a falacy one would have to prove the impossibility of the supernatural and prove that naturalism is all that exists in the universe. This is impossible for many reasons including the need to explain away each and every supernatural prophecy of the Bible.
3. The arguments of ones trying to extablish creationism to be fallacy would have to resort heavily to unproven scientific theory.
I've said all of the above to say that you're posing an impossibility and imo, not worth putting a lot of time, effort and threadband into discussing.
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