I’ve just finished the fourth episode in my series on arguments and evidence for Christianity.  This is the first of two which may be somewhat controversial to Christians because I take an old-earth stance on creation.

I didn’t always hold this view.  When I began preparing this study, I did not believe life to be millions of years old and the most difficult part of my research was realizing that such a belief really was unscientific.  That’s not to say that I don’t think it’s possible that life and/or the universe is only 6-10,000 years old…God could have created it with the appearance of age.  But I no longer think that you can make such an argument based on science or observing the evidence in creation.  Thus, since I believe that Christianity is and should be consistent with history and observable facts, I now find myself in the “old-earth” camp.

So if you are skeptical about whether the Bible is consistent with a view of creation that essentially accepts the fossil record as accurate (along with conventional dating of millions+ of years), so was I.  I now believe that it is consistent, and this episode and the next will explain why.  I hope you find it interesting and that, if nothing else, it encourages you to more deeply explore these topics yourself.

Click here to view Episode 4: Creation & Time