How do Old Earth Literalist handle the Biblical Earth age? I find it a confusing paradox, maybe someone can help clear this up.  If someone considers themselves to be a Biblical Literalist AND an Old Earth Creationist, how do you handle the dates within the bible?  Please see here for the complete article


And simply: 


  Adam was created on day 6, so there were five days before him. If we
  add up the dates from Adam to Abraham, we get about 2,000 years, using
  the Masoretic Hebrew text of Genesis 5 and 11.3 Whether Christian or
  secular, most scholars would agree that Abraham lived about 2,000 B.C.
  (4,000 years ago).


There are some grey areas in the calculation, however they're not thousands or millions of years.
Here's one answer (emphasis added):


  In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Professor William Henry
  Green and theologian Benjamin B. Warfield noted gaps and omissions in
  the Genesis genealogies. This suggested the creation was conceivably
  older than the 6,000-year timeframe proposed by Ussher and Lightfoot.
  Today many Bible scholars believe the Genesis genealogies were written
  primarily to provide only highlights and not necessarily a complete
  record of every actual generation.


And here's another from Reasons to Believe that argues in essence that there is telescoping and theological (rather than strictly historical -- but that's not to say unhistorical) content therein.

This theological telling of history is akin to what we see in Matthew's genealogy of Jesus, for instance. See "The Adoption of Jesus" where the (conservative) author notes:


  The generations are not counted in a precisely similar fashion —
  Jeconiah is counted twice. This is not inappropriate given that [the
  genealogy] is primarily a literary device intended to highlight the
  four markers [viz., Abraham, David, the exile, and Christ].
  Moreover, Jeconiah rightly belongs in both groups: in the first group,
  he is in a line of kings; in the second group, having been deposed, he
  is merely counted as a man.