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The author of Genesis meant for the figures contained in the chronologies in Genesis 5–11 to be taken and understood at face value.2 This was the assumption throughout church history with most of the church fathers arriving at an age for the creation of the world as Davis Young, an old-earth creationist, points out:
The long-ager compromiser Dr Davis Young, was once a staunch advocate of the day-age theory. But he eventually abandoned this nonsense because of the eisegetical gymnastics required to harmonize the Genesis order with the order of events of long-age geology (see also Two worldviews in conflict ).
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Davis Young is a geologist trained at Princeton, Pennsylvania State, and Brown Universities. For the past two years he has served on the faculty of Calvin College as associate professor of Geology. He is also an elder in the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod. Davis Young enjoys the
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Davis A. Young (PhD, Brown University) is professor of geology emeritus of Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His books include John Calvin and the Natural World, The Biblical Flood: A Case Study of the Church's Response to Extra-biblical Evidence, Portraits of Creation: Biblical and Scientific Perspectives on the World's Formation, and ...
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