The Age Old Question

“Mr. Comfort: Could you tell me how old you believe the earth to be, and why?” Andrew Douglas

I have no idea how old the earth is, but I’m not alone in this. Science can’t make up its mind either. Just over one hundred years ago, they thought that it was about 100 million years old. Soon after, they changed their minds and came to the confident belief that the correct number was 500 million years. Then they changed their minds again and the figure jumped to 1.3 billion years. It wasn’t long until they did a double-take on that one and said that they believed it was perhaps 3 billion years old. Of course, now they think that it may be 4.55 billion, give or take a billion years.

I’m sure that contemporary scientists think they have the right number this time, until they change their minds again when more data comes along . . . and, of course, none of the "faithful" will question it.