A perspective on the Eternal
Howard Grace reflects on space and spirituality
Some people, who interpret certain biblical stories literally, believe that creation happened about 6,000 years ago. Personally, I go with evidence pointing to a ‘Big Bang’, which dates the universe at about 13.7 billion years, with the emergence of human beings some hundreds of thousands of years ago.
We talk about God as though we know what we’re talking about.
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>> Some people, who interpret certain biblical stories literally, believe that creation happened about 6,000 years ago.
No abouts! It was shortly after sunset on 23 October 4004 BC! That said, the Lightfootians believe it was at 0900hrs on 3 October; although I don’t know if this takes daylight saving into account.