<blockquote>"In a word, the Scriptural data leave us wholly without guidance in estimating the time which elapsed between the creation of the world and the deluge and between the deluge and the call of Abraham. So far as the Scripture assertions are concerned, we may suppose any length of time to have intervened between these events which may otherwise appear reasonable. The question of the antiquity of man is accordingly a purely scientific one, in which the theologian as such has no concern." [http://www.reasons.org/resources/apologetics/other_papers/primeval_chronology.shtml Comments of B.B. Warfield on Dr. Green]</blockquote> | <blockquote>"In a word, the Scriptural data leave us wholly without guidance in estimating the time which elapsed between the creation of the world and the deluge and between the deluge and the call of Abraham. So far as the Scripture assertions are concerned, we may suppose any length of time to have intervened between these events which may otherwise appear reasonable. The question of the antiquity of man is accordingly a purely scientific one, in which the theologian as such has no concern." [http://www.reasons.org/resources/apologetics/other_papers/primeval_chronology.shtml Comments of B.B. Warfield on Dr. Green]</blockquote> |