The earth is much older than we had thought

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Glenn Jacobs / 130 N. Poverty Flat / Box 954 / Eagar, Arizona 85925 / 928-333-3517
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The earth is very old

Letter to the editor;

For generations we have pulled the rug out from under ourselves, devoutly believing that the earth was created ex nihilo (out of nothing) in the year 4002 BC. (And as a certain cynical atheist added, “on the fourteenth of October, at 9 o’clock in the morning.)

In the beginning G-d created the heavens and the earth.

Adam was created about six thousand years ago.

The Grand Canyon is only one of many mountainous pieces of evidence that The Beginning was thousands of millions of years before Adam.

Our children look at the rocks and hear us say the many layers of the mountains (and the fossils embedded within them) were created just a few days before Adam.

They know better. They can plainly see that this is not true. They may think we would lie to them about other things as well – like about the L-rd or the Ten Commandments.

There is not a solitary word in Scripture that indicates that the earth was without form and void only about a hundred hours before Adam first drew breath. Those numbered “days” of creation just didn’t necessarily have to occur back-to-back with each other.

For those who say G-d created the Grand Canyon and fossils and all that so shortly ago -- will you say He deliberately deceived us? That He manufactured false evidence?

Since the Creator would not lie to us, we can conclude that the fossils in the rocks prove that there used to be other kinds of living things – and that the earth is exceedingly old.

Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona