[Buggman]

Another key issue, demanding a young Earth, is this foundational teaching in Romans 5:12: “Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin...”

Seriously? You're not even going to finish the verse you're quoting for a proof-text? ". . . and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned."

There's nothing in Romans 5 to indicate that sin brought about animal death, only human death due to being separated from God by sin and from the Tree of Life by God.

The more I've learned to read the original Hebrew of Genesis, the more comfortable I am that the six days of creation can just as easily be six ages or epochs of creation without requiring doing violence to or allegorizing the text.

Shalom

[editor-surveyor]

>> “The more I’ve learned to read the original Hebrew of Genesis, the more comfortable I am that the six days of creation can just as easily be six ages or epochs of creation without requiring doing violence to or allegorizing the text.” <<

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There is no reason to go through those gymnastics. Quantum Physics does support the 6000 years in a general sense.