Here's a link to a list of many very recognizable names of whom you very well might have books in your library that are open to or endorse an old earth / old universe. While I provide the list of names here, the link gives a little more information about them.
Some names you may not be impressed with. Some of them don't impress me. However, many of them do impress me. When they talk, even if I'm inclined to disagree, I at least think that I must give them a listen. Many of them have no footprint in the scientific world. What I mean is that some of them have made their living entirely in the Christian community. They do not write any papers that get scientific peer reviews. So why should they hold to an old universe and old earth? Doesn't this sometimes hurt / hinder their ministry to some churches? In some cases, it really does. The only reason they have to hold to such an idea is that they simply think the facts support the idea.
Some of those names are men like John Ankerberg, Norman Geisler, Greg Koukl, J. P. Moreland, Walter Kaiser, Gleason Archer, Robert Godfrey and Lee Strobel. There are others, but this makes the point. What the scientific community thinks of them really isn't relative to their careers.
I'd also like to remind everyone that just because they are open to an old earth / universe (and some are beyond open, but actually do believe this), this doesn't mean they believe in Darwinian macro-evolution. Too many people are guilty of a straw man fallacy at this point of equating old earth / universe with Darwinism. One doesn't necessarily follow from the other.
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