Who to Believe?

Who to Believe?

Science tells us the earth is four and a half billion years old. Yet, hominids didn’t appear till two million years ago. Egypt was being settled, by early humans who had speech, about 700,000 B.C. Not till about 70,000 B.C. did Neanderthal man arrive on the scene. And 43,000 B.C. saw the arrival of our species, Homo (whose life expectancy was less than 30 years). At least by 10,000 years ago, people were harvesting grain, hunting with bow and arrow, and cooking in clay pots. Around 5000 B.C., we were brewing beer. Yet, by Newton’s time (17th Century), you could read a footnote to the creation story in the Bible, asserting that God created the world in 4004 B.C. (on October 23, at 9 A.M., according to a church authority).