The oldest known historical records are less than 6000 years old. (1, p. 160)

Many ancient cultures have stories of an original creation in the recent past and a worldwide Flood. Nearly 300 of these Flood legends are now known.

Ancient Chinese Language Supports Creation Account
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Biblical dates add up to about 6000 years.

The following Bible verses tell when "the beginning" was:

• In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Gen. 1:1)
• Moses because of the hardness of your hearts permitted you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. (Mt. 19:8)
• But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. (Mk. 10:6)
• In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. (Jn. 1:1)
• That which was from the beginning, which we have seen with our eyes and our hands have handled, of the Word of life. (1 Jn. 1:1)
• He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. (1 Jn. 3:8)
• For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time. (Mt. 24:21)
• Ye are of your father the devil.... He was a murderer from the beginning. (Jn. 8:44)
• That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; from the blood of Abel. (Lk. 11:50, 51)
• And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth. (Heb. 1:10)
• For in six days the Lord made heaven and the earth, the sea, and all that in them is. (Ex. 20:11)
• Since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. (2 Pet. 3:4)
• The works were finished from the foundation of the world. For God did rest the seventh day from all his works. (Heb. 4:3, 4)
• For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created to this time. (Mk. 13:19)
• Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? Have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? (Is. 40:21)
• Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord am he. (Is. 41:4)
• Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female? (Mt. 19:4)
• For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made. (Ro. 1:20)

Sources:

1.     Morris, Henry M. Scientific Creationism. El Cajon, Calif.: Master Books, April 1985.