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NASB | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth. [Heb 11:3] |
Bible Question (short): How old is the earth? |
Question (full): Should the time table of the creation of the world as written in Genesis be taken literally? Science has proven that evolution is a fact. (This is not to say that science has proven that man evolved from any other animal.) This raises the question of how old the earth is. I'm sure everyone has seen the remains of animals that have been dead for countless years and have seen how they compare to animals now so I won't go into that. Is it possible that the accounts in Genisis are not set on the same time table that we think of? I understand that 1 year to God is not the same as 1 year to man and I understand that God is not regulated by time as we are. With that being the case is it possible that the earth is much older than we believe it is? |