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Most Americans are either [[Old Earth Creationist]]s, believing that God created the Earth billions of years ago - and the various forms of life over the last several hundred million years or [[evolution]]ists. Evolution advocates support the same time line but don't believe in supernatural intervention.
 
Most Americans are either [[Old Earth Creationist]]s, believing that God created the Earth billions of years ago - and the various forms of life over the last several hundred million years or [[evolution]]ists. Evolution advocates support the same time line but don't believe in supernatural intervention.
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Both Old Earth Creationists and Evolutionists accept the mainstream scientific estimate of 4.57 billion years old for the age of the Earth.
  
 
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Revision as of 00:30, September 15, 2007

Old Earth theories contrast with Young Earth Creationism by positing the age of the Earth in the billions of years. A sizeable minority of Americans accept the biblical literalist position that God created the Earth less than 10,000 years ago.

Most Americans are either Old Earth Creationists, believing that God created the Earth billions of years ago - and the various forms of life over the last several hundred million years or evolutionists. Evolution advocates support the same time line but don't believe in supernatural intervention.

Both Old Earth Creationists and Evolutionists accept the mainstream scientific estimate of 4.57 billion years old for the age of the Earth.