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I do hold to an old earth perspective.
I do believe that the earth is as scientists say
4 billion years old and that the universe is 13.8 billion years old.
There is no Christian creed or confession
that requires that one hold to a young earth or an old earth.
And throughout the history of the church
theologians have held to a variety of positions.
Some theologians interpreted Genesis 1 and 2
to teach that the earth is only about 6,000 years old.
Others such as Saint Augustine
did not understand the seven days of creation to be 24 hour days.
So there is latitude within the Christian faith about the age of the earth.
I think that a close reading of the Genesis text
in Genesis 1, 2, and 3
lend itself to a non-24 hour interpretation.
There is a number of reasons for this.
For one thing the word day is used three different ways in the text.
And it makes it very clear that we are not to understand each day as a 24 hour day.
because for each day that it speaks about, the first day, day two, day three,
it would say evening and morning, day one.
Evening and morning, day two.
Evening and morning, day three.
Well, if you think about it for a second, that's not a 24 hour period.
Evening to morning isn't even the daytime.
Evening and morning is talking about the evening, the night time.
And it's talking about the time in which God would create,
and then there would be a period of rest.
And so just a close reading of the text itself indicates
that one should not read Genesis 1 as teaching a literal 24 hour period.
And so I'm very comfortable with an old earth perspective
because I think that it not only fits what the text says,
but it also fits the latest findings of science.