Both Sides Are Reading a Timeline Into It: The Assumption Young-Earth and Old-Earth Share
Apologetics · Creation — the assumption young-earth and old-earth believers share, and rarely examine Two Christians sit down to argue […]
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Not a Diary: The Framework and Analogical Readings of Genesis 1
Apologetics · Creation — the old-earth readings that are not day-age Most people arguing about Genesis 1 think there are
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The Ice Age the Flood Left Behind
Ice ages are not caused by cold. They need warm oceans and cool summers at the same time — and that is exactly what Genesis 7 leaves behind.
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Before Lyell: What the Church Actually Said About Genesis
Both sides claim history. The record cuts both ways — and Augustine, the name everyone reaches for, believed in a world under six thousand years old.
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Blood in the Bone: What Soft Tissue and Stray Carbon Ask of a Very Old Earth
Soft tissue in dinosaur bone and carbon-14 where there should be none. What the anomalies actually establish, what they do not, and where the young-earth case really rests.
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Same Creator, Same Adam, Different Clock
Before you decide which side of the age-of-the-earth debate is compromising, find out what both sides refuse to give up. Drawing the line between essential and in-house.
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Nobody Reads the Age Off the Rocks: The Flood and the Assumption Underneath
Rock layers do not carry timestamps. Before anyone dates a canyon wall, somebody has to decide what kind of past made it — and 2 Peter names the assumption.
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One Word, Two Readings: What “Yom” Can and Cannot Settle in Genesis 1
Apologetics · Creation — Reading Genesis 1 With the Text in Front of You Two men sit in the same
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The Line That Adds Up: Genesis 5, Genesis 11, and the Age Question
The young-earth case does not rest on rock layers. It rests on two genealogies that attach numbers to names. The best objections stated at full strength, the reply that turns on arithmetic, and what the list is actually for.
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Death Before Adam: The Hardest Question Old-Earth Creationism Has to Answer
An in-house question, handled honestly on both sides Every position has one question it would rather not be asked. For
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The Numbers Behind the Numbers: What Radiometric Dating Can and Cannot Prove
Nobody has ever measured the age of a rock. We measure something else and then reason backward. Say “4.5 billion
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How Old Is “In the Beginning”? The Old-Earth Reading, Fairly Made
How Old Is “In the Beginning”? The Old-Earth Reading, Fairly Made Yesterday we made the case for a young earth
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Evening and Morning: The Case for a Young Earth
Apologetics — the case for a young earth, made honestly, with room for the brothers who read it differently. Few
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How Long Was a Day? The Old-Earth Case, Weighed Honestly
Apologetics · Creation — what the word “day” can carry in Genesis 1, and what it cannot Ask a room
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The Chain of Names: What Genesis 5 and 11 Claim About the Age of the World
Nobody arrives at a young earth by looking through a telescope. You get there by reading a list — and the one detail in that list that only matters if elapsed time is the point.
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The Light That Left Before Abraham: Old-Earth Believers and the Witness of the Stars
Old-earth believers read the night sky as God’s own record — and the century that proved the universe began did the doubters no favors.
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From the Beginning of Creation: Jesus and the Age of the Earth
Before you ask how old the earth is, ask a prior question: how did Jesus read Genesis? Debates about the
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The Day With No Evening: The Seventh Day and the Age of the Earth
Apologetics · Creation & Science — six days end with “evening and morning.” The seventh never does. What should we
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Old-Earth Creationism: A Fair Look at the Family Argument
How old is the earth? And how much should the answer divide us? Few questions get believers shouting at each
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Old Earth, Young Earth, One Creator: What You Can’t Compromise
Faithful believers disagree about the age of the earth. They do not disagree about who made it. Knowing the difference