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"I
don't believe in the Bible because dinosaurs lived a long time before man
ever did."
Have you ever heard a statement like that? I certainly have—many times. In fact, this was one of the principal reasons Charles Darwin, the father of the theory of evolution, eventually rejected the Bible. Many have followed suit.
Most people believe you can't reconcile dinosaurs and the Bible—but
they are wrong. This erroneous idea is based on the supposition that
either you have to believe in the young-earth theory of a 6,000 year-old
earth and dinosaurs living with Adam, or you can't believe in the creation
week account of Genesis 1.
Yet many would be surprised to find that several centuries ago scientists did believe in dinosaurs, an ancient earth and in creation week.
In fact, many of the first geologists who established the basic geologic column were believers in both the Bible and an ancient earth.
British physicist Alan Hayward wrote about these premier geologists: "Among them were William Buckland and Adam Sedgwick. Buckland held the chair of geology at Oxford in the early nineteenth century, while Sedgwick was his counterpart at Cambridge [University]. Both were leading churchmen, and both preached the plenary inspiration of Scripture and argued in favor of special creation …
"Buckland maintained close links with Sedgwick and the famous French geologist, Baron Cuvier … They did much to persuade the early nineteenth century church that the earth was extremely old and that such views could be harmonized with the teaching of Genesis" (Creation and Evolution, 1985, pp. 72-73).
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