The earth is simply the point of incubation, and scheduled for destruction, along with the rest of the material universe in the comparatively near future.
Comparatively near future? For a young earth creationist, that must be threatening :-) A couple of billion years for the rest of us, I think...
106 posted on 03/20/2007 1:42:02 PM PDT by si tacuissem
(sapere aude!)