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== The day-age controversy ==

== The day-age controversy ==

[[Progressive creationism]], in an attempt to compromise Scripture with [[geology|geological]] [[uniformitarianism]] and [[evolution]], states that each of the "days" in [[Genesis]] 1 were actually great ages of the earth. This interpretation fails for a number of reasons. The most salient reason is that Genesis tells us that [[plant]]s were created on Day 3, while the [[sun]] and [[moon]] were created on Day 4. While plants might survive one solar day without light, they would not survive for millions of years without light. Nor does progressive creationism say where the light of the first "day" of Genesis 1 came from. (In addition, most uniformitarians insist that the sun existed before the earth, and in fact date the sun primarily by adding a few hundreds of thousands of years to their value for the age of the earth.)

[[Progressive creationism]], in an attempt to compromise Scripture with [[geology|geological]] [[uniformitarianism]] and [[evolution]], states that each of the "days" in [[Genesis]] 1 were actually great ages of the earth. This interpretation fails for a number of reasons. The most salient reason is that Genesis tells us that [[plant]]s were created on Day 3, while the [[sun]] and [[moon]] were created on Day 4. While plants might survive one solar day without light, they would not survive for millions of years without light. Nor does progressive creationism say where the light of the first "day" of Genesis 1 came from. (In addition, most uniformitarians insist that the sun existed before the earth, and in fact date the sun primarily by adding a few hundreds of thousands of years to their value for the age of the earth.)

==References==

==References==

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