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SSFT Final DudtAristotle believed that the earth - answer always existed
who believed the earth to be repeatedly created and destroyed over 23 bil yr cycles -
answer Chinese
Chinese believed the age of the earth was - answer<23 bil years
Hindu scripture suggests - answer repeated bangs and crunches every 4.3 bil yr, at
1.97 bill yr we have 2.35 bil years to go
believe the earth to be both old and young - answer Christianity:
Protestant
Catholic
Eastern Orthodox
Origin - answer (early 300's)
wrote de Principiis IV
"What person of intelligence would think that there existed a first, second, and third day
and an evening and morning, without sun, moon and stars?" - answerOrigin (300's)
Basil - answer(mid 300s)
regarded the creation days as 24 hr days where "light cause day and night by bring
drawn back and forth" before the fourth day
Augustine - answer(early 400s)
wrote City of God
"what kind of days these were is extremely difficult or perhaps impossible to conceive" -
answerAugustine
Calvin - answer(mid 1500s)
does not address the exact nature of the six days but insists on 6 day creation days
Bishop Usher - answer(1654)
4004 BC creation date based on Biblical genealogies gives an old idea new popularity
19th century Gap theory - answerCharles Hodge
Day age theory - answerB. Warfield
, gives new energy to old theories causing _____ popularity to decline - answer19th
century gap theory
Day age theory;
young earth
neither of these are a litmus test for orthodoxy - answer19th century gap theory
day age theory
20th-21st century age of the earth theories: - answerOld earth
Young earth
old earth theories in 21st century maintained by: - answerC. S. Lewis, J.G. Machen, F.
Schaeffer, E.J. Young, Chuck Colson, Packer, Chapell, Pantinga
young earth theories maintained by: - answerSeventh Day Adventists in 1920s, John
Piper, Al mohir, Pipa, Sproul
observed that the Nile deposited silt during floods thus believed most features were the
result of sudden, violent processes - answerHerodotus
500BC
recognized river deposits and realized that fossil seashells from rocks were similar to
those found on the beach, indicating the fossils were once living animals. deduced that
the positions of land and sea ha changed and thought these changes occurred over
long periods of time. - answerAristotle
384-322BC
wrote a mineralogy book, Concerning Stones, which dominated thought through the
middle ages. Unfortunately, he also suggested that fossils might not be the remains of
once living animals - answerTheophrastus
374-287BC
calculated the circumference of the earth by measuring noontime shadows at two
localities of different latitude - answerEratosthenes
250BC
stated crucifixion was a unique event from which all events could be measured, initiating
the BC/AD time scale - answerAugustine
354-430AD
recognized that material carried by rivers to the sea was eventually compacted into
sedimentary rock and later uplifted to form mountains, concluded that they must be at
least 200,000 years old. He surmised that the whole of geologic time must be much
longer - answerLeonardo da Vinci
1452-1519
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