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 […]
Apologetics · Creation — the assumption young-earth and old-earth believers share, and rarely examine Two Christians sit down to argue […]
Apologetics · Creation — what the Hebrew word min actually claims, and what it does not Ten times in the
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Apologetics · Creation — Reading Genesis 1 With the Text in Front of You Two men sit in the same
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.
An in-house question, handled honestly on both sides Every position has one question it would rather not be asked. For
Nobody has ever measured the age of a rock. We measure something else and then reason backward. Say “4.5 billion
How Old Is “In the Beginning”? The Old-Earth Reading, Fairly Made Yesterday we made 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
Apologetics · Creation — what the word “day” can carry in Genesis 1, and what it cannot Ask a room
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.
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.
Before you ask how old the earth is, ask a prior question: how did Jesus read Genesis? Debates about the
Apologetics · Creation & Science — six days end with “evening and morning.” The seventh never does. What should we
Ten minutes old, Adam looked thirty. A universe spoken into being arrives functioning — and functioning things carry the appearance of a history they never lived.
How old is the earth? And how much should the answer divide us? Few questions get believers shouting at each