The Age of the Earth

Here's another thought about the age of the earth. God created the universe with the appearance of age. The answer to the age old question, which came first, the chicken or the egg, is clearly answered in Genesis 1:21. The chicken was! Adam was created as a grown man, not an infant or child or teen. If a geologist could climb into a time machine and travel back to late Friday afternoon of creation week, he would observe a created order that had every appearance that it was many years old. He would see flowering plants, seed-producing trees, birds soaring overhead and earth-bound animals lumbering about. And after observing Adam he would certainly conclude that he was decades old, when in fact, he was only a few hours old at best. There is no indication in Genesis 1-2 that speaks of long geological ages in the creation process. Only by reading between the lines, or interpreting words and phrases in a non-literal sense can anyone read millions of years into God's creative work. The Doc