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İzlediğiniz için teşekkür ederim.

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I do hold to an old earth perspective.

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I do believe that the earth is as scientists say

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4 billion years old and that the universe is 13.8 billion years old.

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There is no Christian creed or confession

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that requires that one hold to a young earth or an old earth.

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And throughout the history of the church

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theologians have held to a variety of positions.

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Some theologians interpreted Genesis 1 and 2

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to teach that the earth is only about 6,000 years old.

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Others such as Saint Augustine

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did not understand the seven days of creation to be 24 hour days.

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So there is latitude within the Christian faith about the age of the earth.

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I think that a close reading of the Genesis text

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in Genesis 1, 2, and 3

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lend itself to a non-24 hour interpretation.

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There is a number of reasons for this.

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For one thing the word day is used three different ways in the text.

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And it makes it very clear that we are not to understand each day as a 24 hour day.

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because for each day that it speaks about, the first day, day two, day three,

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it would say evening and morning, day one.

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Evening and morning, day two.

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Evening and morning, day three.

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Well, if you think about it for a second, that's not a 24 hour period.

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Evening to morning isn't even the daytime.

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Evening and morning is talking about the evening, the night time.

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And it's talking about the time in which God would create,

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and then there would be a period of rest.

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And so just a close reading of the text itself indicates

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that one should not read Genesis 1 as teaching a literal 24 hour period.

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And so I'm very comfortable with an old earth perspective

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because I think that it not only fits what the text says,

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but it also fits the latest findings of science.