The Age of the Universe A related question has to do with the age of the universe. Some evangelical scholars have urged that by simply determining the birth date for Abraham and then totaling up the ages of the patriarchs listed in the genealogies of Genesis 5 and 11 at the time each fathered his successor, one may determine when Adam was created and accordingly (assuming that the days of Genesis are ordinary days) when the universe itself was created. This procedure has yielded a date for the creation