Creationist Perspectives on Old Earth

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Most creationists believe in a literal six-day creation as described in the Bible, and an earth age in accordance with the scriptural genealogy, but not all. There are a large number of Christians who accept the scientific community's assessment of earth's age, and some have made alternate interpretations of the scripture in keeping with the evolutionary time line. There are at least three major camps of old-earth creation science thought; progressive creation, gap theory creation, and theistic evolution.

Progressive Creationism  (Day-Age Creation) is an attempt to harmonize the Bible with current scientific beliefs. It assumes the days of the creation were actually broad lengths of time, and proposes that God separately created the various kinds of organisms and later man, but over a long period of time. It also accepts the evolutionary time scale (simple to complex over millions of years) but has more input from God. Hugh Ross and the Reasons to Believe ministry teach progressive creationism. Use the following to view a progressive creationist timeline chart.

Gap Theory Creation assumes that a vast period of time elapsed between the first two verses of Genesis. Most variations of this theory interpret Genesis 1:1 as the first creation, which included the creation of the heavens, the earth, plants and animals, and even a race of humans preceding Adam. Perhaps billions of years then elapsed, during which time Satan and his angels fell and corrupted the inhabitants of the earth. God then judged and destroyed the earth and all its inhabitants. Thus, the earth became "formless and void" (Genesis 1:2) and remained that way for eons. The second creation, according to the gap theory, began in Genesis 1:3 with the first day of the (re)creation week—the familiar six-day creation.

Theistic Evolution accepts the theory of evolution as the mechanisms for the development of life on earth from a single common ancestor. Some theistic evolutionists believe abiogenesis is impossible without a direct act of God, and others assume God created the universe in such a way that life would eventually result.

Old-Earth Organizations / Ministry Sites

• Affiliation of Christian Geologists
• American Scientific Affiliation
• Answers In Creation - Old-Earth Answers to Young-Earth Claims
• Christian Geology Ministry
• Christians in Science UK organization
• CreationDays.DK Gap Theory
• DMD Publishing Co. Writings by Glenn Morton
• Evidence for God from Science
• Genesis International Research Association promotes the "successive, day age creation concept" which suggests literally thousands of separate and successive acts of creation are said to have occurred.
• Genesis Proclaimed Association
• Geoscience Research Institute
• Institute For Biblical and Scientific Studies
• Interdisciplinary Biblical Research Institute
• NewCreationism.Org - Intelligent Design and Old Earth Creationism Resource site
• Reasons To Believe Hugh Ross
• The American Scientific Affiliation
• The Church of Reason Dr. Reverend Bill Brown's Internet Ministry
• The Institute For Neo-Creationism

Articles, and other Resources

• A Brief Look at A Brief History of Time (Hawking's) by Hugh Ross
• A New Look At An Old Earth A Hypertext Book by Don Stoner
• A Theology of Progressive Creationism by Pattle Pun
• Age of the Earth: Debate between Gish and Ross
• An Age-Old Question A Review of The Age of the Earth by Brown, R. H. of the Geoscience Research Institute
• A History and Analysis of the 15.7 Light-Year Universe by Perry Phillips Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 40.1:19-23 (3/1988)
• Articles on Theistic Evolution - compiled by Mike Riddle
• Biblical Defense of Long Creation Days by Rich Deem
• Biblical Evidence for Long Creation Days
• Evolution - One Christian's Perspective (Theistic-Evolution.com)
• Creation and Time article by Hugh Ross
• Creation, Creationism, & Empirical Theistic Arguments Progressive (Old Earth) Creationism / Intelligent Design
• Creation Theory Radically New Origins Concepts
• Creation, Time, and 'Apparent Age by Clarence Menninga, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 40.3:160-162 (9/1988)
• Creationary Model for the Universe and Life on Earth
• CreationDays.DK - Articles that support the Gap Theory
• Day-Age Genesis One Interpretation
• Dinosaurs & The Bible Booklet by the Radio Bible Class (RBC) Ministries
• Do Long Creation Days Imply Evolution? article by Hugh Ross
• From  the Small Carechism to the Big Bang by George Murphy Glaube und Denken (10.Jahrgang 1997), pp.29-45.
• Genesis Unveiled a look at the Genesis creation account in the original Hebrew
• Greene's Creationism Truth Filter A theistic evolutionists anti-YEC site
• How Good Are Those Young Earth Arguments? Responses to Dr. Hovind's young earth arguments by Dave Matson
• Humankind: The Crown of Creation The creation date for people - article by Hugh Ross
• Indicators of an Old Earth by the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
• Introduction- The Ruin - Reconstruction (Gap Theory) Interpretation of Genesis Outline on the scriptural and doctrinal support for why only the so called "Gap Theory" interpretation of Genesis meets the requirements of both the Biblical text and Geologic evidence.
• Is the Young Earth Interpretation Biblically Sound? by Rich Deem
• Is There Evidence for a Young Earth? Rebuttal to young earth evidence; by Tim Thompson
• Is There Really Scientific Evidence for a Young Earth? by Matthew S. Tiscareno
• Life Forms just before end of Ice Age and after Seven Days of Genesis Discussion of life forms on the earth in the world prior to the seven days of Genesis and the type of life forms placed on earth at the regeneration of Genesis 1:3-2:1. Also showing that man was created unique and has no evolutionary or DNA links to Preadamite races of "humanoids.
• Making Sense of Genesis 1 Part 1 (Importance of Point of View)
• Making Sense of Genesis 1 Part 2 (Creation Events and the Fossil Record) Articles by Hugh Ross
• Mathematics, Cosmology, and the Contingent Universe by Bruce Hedman Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 41.2:99-103 (6/1989)
• Observations of Geologic Evidence for the Death of the Ancient World Death of the Ancient world, the evidence. An outline of published works documenting evidence of a catastrophic extinction episode in the late Pleistocene, and how it relates to the flood and destruction of the old world.
• Origins - Theistic Evolution
• Origins Timeline Table of Old-earth timeline of creation
• Progressive Creationism by Andrew Rigg
• Progressive Creation: A Scientific General Theory of Creation Online book by Stephen E. Jones
• Radiometric Dating: A Christian Perspective : A validation of radiometric dating from Dr. Roger Weins.
• Radiometric Dating and How It Caused My Conversion To The Old Earth Perspective By Kevin Miller
• Science and Creation
• Science and Scripture Discourse on the problems with Evolutionary and Young Earth creation models and introductory discussions to the branching topics indexed below.
• Scientific Evidence for the Existence of God - by Dr. Walter Bradley
• Science Watch by Darrick Dean
• Sedimentology by the Institute for Biblical and Scientific Studies
• Stephen Hawking, The Big Bang, and God Part I - Dr. Henry "Fritz" Schaefer III lectures about the cosmological and theological implications of "A Brief History of Time."
  • Stephen Hawking, the Big Bang, and God Part II
  • Stephen Hawking's Personal Page from Cambridge Stephen Hawking Tribute Page by Nick Donaldson
• The Age of Life, Radiometric Dating and Tree Rings by Anonymous Nazarene Saints
• The Age of the Earth by Don Lindsay
• The Age of the Earth by Talk Origins - Chris Stassen  (AntiCreation)
• The Age of the Earth and the Universe Annotated Slide Show
• The Age of the Earth FAQs by TalkOrigins (AntiCreation)
• The Age of the Universe: What are the Biblical Limits? by Gorman Gray - Chapter 1
• The Case for Theistic Evolution
• The Chronology of the "Worlds" The "worlds" of the Bible and geologic timeline. Showing past, present, and future worlds on the face of the earth. A further, point-by-point expanded explanation of the Biblical Timeline chart shown in the introduction pages.
• The Days of Peleg and Historical Changes in Sea Level How the descendents of the three sons of Noah migrated to other parts of the world. The event of the "days of Peleg" 101 years after the great flood, and what part this played in the migration and isolation of the races and animals.
• The Gap Theory: An Idea with Holes by Henry M. Morris Creation Ex Nihilo 10(1):35-37
  December 1987
• The Greenland Ice Sheet- Frozen Truth Paleoclimate indicators show that changes in global temperatures occur at intervals which match the literal Biblical timeline of events: i.e. destruction of the previous world, the re-creation, Noah's flood, and the days of Peleg.
• The Origins Solution Online Book by Dick Fisher
• The Pre-Adamite world and Ancient Origins of Satan, AKA- Lucifer Lucifer's purpose over the ancient pristine created world and the "sons of God" which were the old world's first inhabitants.
• The Testimony of a Formerly Young Earth Missionary by Dr. Joshua Zorn
• The Trinity Report Articles
• Theistic Evolution - Perspectives\
• Theistic Evolution list of articles against theistic evolution compiled by Mike Riddle
• Theological Implications of an Evolving Creation - Keith Miller.
• Young-Earth Creationism Rebuttals to young-earth interpretations by GodandScience.Org
• "World" and "Earth" - The Biblical Timeline displays a graphical timeline of Earth's geologic history and parallel spiritual history, as revealed by the Scriptures.
• A Worldview Test-Site

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