How Old Is Creation?

Making my rounds of some blog sites I came across questions and discussions on the age of the earth. Some religionists believe that the world could be millions of years old and others are convinced that the bible says that that it's creation took place about 6,000 years ago. Who is right?

Starting in the book of Genesis we read Gen 1:1 In the beginning God Created the heavens and the earth . The next verse, Gen 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
The words "without form was translated from the Hebrew word tohu meaning "waste" and the word "void" was from the Hebrew word, "bohu" meaning confusion.

Scofield Reference Notes: without form and void;
(Jer_4:23-27); (Isa_24:1); (Isa_45:18) clearly indicate that the earth had undergone a cataclysmic change as the result of divine judgment. The face of the earth bears everywhere the marks of such a catastrophe. There are not wanting imitations which connect it with a previous testing and fall of angels.

A better translation of this verse would be "And the earth became waste and confusion. And seeing that God is not the author of confusion. I Cor 14:33 one can only conclude that something happened between the time the earth was created in Gen 1:1 and time we read of in Gen 1:2. (But that is a different study.) Suffice to say that billions of years could have past between the original creation of the heavens and the earth and the time written of in verse 2 of Genesis where God is resurfacing the earth in preparation for the introduction of man.

I come to the conclusion that this preparation was done in twenty four hour days because plants life was created on the third day but the sun did not shine in full strength until the fourth day and the insects needed to pollinate the plants were not created until the sixth day. Plant life could not have survived for thousands of years waiting for sunlight and insect life.