Long Ages—A Philosophical Idea

Answers with Ken Ham

This is Ken Ham, coauthor of the book on Noah’s flood, A Flood of Evidence.

Did you know many of the earliest geologists believed in a young earth and a global flood? So where’d the idea of millions of years of earth’s history come from?

Well, it actually came from a rejection of God’s Word. Some of the most influential geologists were atheists or deists. Before they ever studied the rocks, they’d already decided that God’s Word wasn’t true. But they had to explain rock layers somehow so they made the assumption that present processes must be the key to what happened in the past. The result was millions of years.

The long ages didn’t come from the rocks—they came from a rejection of God’s Word.

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