E09: Old Earth vs Young Earth — Who's Right | Creation Today

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"How old is planet earth? Does it even matter? In 1795, James Hutton claimed the earth was much older than people thought. His book “Theory of the Earth”, was used by Charles Lyell in 1830 to justify the layers of the earth representing eons of time instead of a global flood. It was the influence of Lyell’s book that resulted in Charles Darwin publishing “On the Origin of Species” in 1859 which formally introduced the theory of evolution to the scientific community. All along the way, the churc…