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>>>>I am teaching science, (but not at public school) and as a matter of fact I start each class off with reading a couple of verses from Genesis and if a video I’m showing talks about the earth being millions of years old, I stop the DVD and ask my students how long it really took God to create the world and they say “6 days!<<<<

>>Millions? Is that a typo?<<

Nope. “Millions” (plural) means two or more million. So “billions” contains at least a thousand millions. And the fact is that in the 1800s, the “calculations” for the age of the earth were often less then a billion, sometimes even around 20 million.

And much of the videos I use in my class are from the 1950’s and it is entirely possible that they would use the phrase “millions of years” when referring to the age of the earth - so it made perfect sense for me to use the more broad word who’s definition is “Two or more millions.”

Does that help?

By the way, I don’t know what your field is, but mine is electronics and other physical sciences. I’m used to science being a knowable demonstrable thing. How do you feel about evolutionary science (as in All From Nothing and All Species By Evolution) - how can I or anyone else know it to be true rather then taking it purely on faith? Having grown up on a small family farm, I well know that the livestock never gives birth to an exact identical copy of itself (or at least they never did on my family’s farm!) so if we take the word “evolution” to just mean “change” — then yeah I’ve seen evolution. That’s the kind I have seen. But the alleged fact that the dog and the goat (even though they both bark up trees (Except the goat eats the bark)) are related is the other kind of evolution - that which I have not seen and that kind of evolution I can at best take by pure faith.

Or do you think that the level of faith required, for example, AC/DC theory is just the same as that required for ASBE/AFN (All Species By Evolution, All From Nothing)?

Thanks,

-Jesse

PS: I tried to find a chart of how old the earth was in 1950 but I could not find any such thing in my admittedly brief search.