Originally Posted by
PostmodernProphet
wrong time line......I'm talking about the gap between creation and the fall.......I think a lot of people expect that since all you have to do is turn a page it must have happened right away........it could have as easily been millions of years........
4.5 Billion is the age of the Earth, not "millions"... as I said even being generous with the timeline it's a weak argument, like the ones that say that dinosaurs and humans shared the Earth at some point. It just isn't true.
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