Can Genesis and Old Earth chronology be reconciled?

Only when you treat Genesis as literally true. But this is not what Genesis actually says about itself.

Genesis 17:7 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

So Abraham did not believe a 100 year old man could father a child or a woman at the young age of 90. Now how old was was Abraham’s father when Abraham was born? He was 130 years old based on Acts 7:4. And he had plenty of other relatives that had children at ages much greater than 100. This tells me that the ages are symbolic and are not meant to be taken literally.

Matthew 19: 4-6 and Jesus is not talking about Adam and Eve but the creation of marriage. I know it is not A&E because “for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh” wouldn’t apply to A&E.

This is what the early Church Fathers believed but it was based on an allegorical reading of the OT. Certainly not a literal reading.

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