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Troy started serving at First Baptist Church Windermere as the Director of Young Adults in 1997. He currently participates in the preaching duties with Chuck Carter and uses his talents to write dramas and help with the video production. Troy is a freelance writer, with credits at Disney, Nickelodeon and is the head writer for the Hermie the Caterpillar series. He is married to Barbie and they have three boys: Riley, Brady, Carson. (www.indywriterguy.com)
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How old is the Earth?

by Troy 12/23/2008 11:11:00 PM

           This is a highly debatable topic.  If we look at the way the Bible is written and take the term “day” in Genesis 1 as a literal 24-hour day, then scholars estimate the earth is 6,000 years old.  Those who believe this are called Early Earth Creationists. 

 

The word “day” in Hebrew (yom) has a very loose translation and can mean “an expanded time period.”  It could mean a day, or years, or a generation, or a million years.  These are the Old Earth Creationists.  They believe that God created the earth before there was measurable time, so how could you measure a twenty four period before the sun, moon, earth and planets began their orbital migration.

 

The important fact of creation that both agree upon is that God started the process of creation.  Evolution is not a provable fact.  Whether the earth is old or new makes little difference in our theology.

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