The Bible and the Age of the Earth [Part II] [EDITOR’S NOTE:
Part I of this three-part series appeared in the August issue.
Part II follows below and continues, without introductory
comments, where the first article ended. Part III appeared in
the October issue.] BIBLICAL GENEALOGIES AND THE AGE OF THE
EARTH Attempts to place the time necessary for an ancient Earth
during the creation week (the Day-Age Theory) have proven
unsuccessful. Similarly, attempts to insert the time needed for
an old Earth before the creation week (the Gap Theory) also have
failed. Subsequently, the idea has been proposed that perhaps
geologic time might be placed after the creation week of Genesis
1. Those willing to offer such a suggestion, however, have been
few and far between because of a major obstacle in the biblical
record to such a compromise. As every student of the Sacred
Scriptures is aware, the Bible contains lengthy genealogies.
That these records play a vital role in biblical literature is
clear from the amount of space