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According to creationism, the Earth is less than 10,000 years old, and is usually found to be around 6,000 years old. This results from an interpretation of Biblical genealogies.

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According to creationism, the Earth is less than 10,000 years old, and is usually found to be around 6,000 years old. This results from an interpretation of Biblical genealogies.

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OEC is an umbrella term for various ideas on the Creation. These include the Gap Theory and Progressive Creationism. Suggest you look it up via the phrase 'old earth creationism' as it it too long to summarize here.

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1) In order to reconcile Creation with Evolution, Old-Earth Creationism holds that God made the universe and then guided Evolution over long epochs.

2) In repudiation of Evolution, Young-Earth Creationismholds that God created the universe and living things relatively recently without the use of Evolution.

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Link: Evidence for Creation

Link: Can you show that God exists

Link: God's wisdom seen in His creations

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Christians are divided between; From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Old Earth creationism is a variant of the creationist view of the origin of the universe and life on Earth. As a theory of origins it is typically more compatible with mainstream scientific thought on the issues of geology, cosmology and the age of the Earth, in comparison to Young Earth creationism. However, it still generally takes the accounts of creation in Genesis more literally than theistic evolution (or evolutionary creationism).

Old Earth creationism is in fact an umbrella term for a number of perspectives, including Gap creationism and Progressive creationism. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Young Earth creationism is the religious belief that the Earth and life on Earth were created by a direct act of God dating between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago. Its adherents are Christians, Muslims or Jews who believe that God created the Earth in six 24-hour days, taking the Hebrew text of Genesis as a literal account.

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Young Earth creationism asserts that the earth and universe were created by God in a literal six days about 6,000-10,000 years ago, as described in the Bible, whereas Old Earth creationism accommodates scientific dating methods and allows for a much older age of the earth and universe, but still believes in a divine creator. Both views seek to reconcile scientific and religious beliefs, but differ in their interpretations of the age of the earth and universe.

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