(In Matthew 1:8, for instance, Matthew skips three generations from Joram to Uzziah, apparently to maintain a symmetry in the genealogy.) No such gaps can be proven in the detailed genealogies of Genesis 5 and 11. But even allowing for some possible gaps, it's inconceivable that the date for Adam's creation could be much more than ten thousand years ago. (63).
However, using the methods of geology this is not a valid theory. Using methods that measure radioactive materials, science dates the earth somewhere around five or six billion years old, and maybe even older. .
Now, there have been those who have attempted to reconcile the apparent age of the earth with Biblical material and they have done so with several theories. One of these theories is the Gap Theory. This theory claims that the original creation was completed billions of years ago and this is what is recorded in Gen. 1:1. This theory states that there was some sort of catastrophe that occurred (such as the fall of Satan) that caused the earth to become empty and unformed (Gen 1:2). At this point, God recreated the earth and populated it with all the species approximately six thousand years ago. The recreation of the earth took only six days and this is the creation that is described in Gen. 1:3-31(Newton).
There is a second theory of creation known as the Ideal Time Theory. This theory claims that God created the world in a six day period about six thousand years ago, but He created the world as if it were already billions of years old. The reasoning behind this is the fact that God made Adam as a man (an ideal age) rather than an infant. This being the case it is also possible that he could have created the world to have characteristics of an aged earth. In this theory, if you would have cut down a tree on the first day of creation, it would have had rings as if it were several years old (Newton).
Newton goes on to describe a third theory known as the Age Day Theory.