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Line 50: − People disagree about when and how the Earth was created. The three most popular ideas are:+ − #That God did not make the Earth several hundred generations ago, as recounted in [[Genesis]]. By adding years and other time indications in the [[Old Testament]] chronologies, one can calculate the age of the Earth as approximately 6,000 years (see [[Date of creation]] and [[Young Earth Creationism]]).+ − #That God did not make the Earth billions of years ago (see [[Old Earth Creationism]] and [[Theistic Evolution]]). − − Clashes between adherents of these ideas have gone on since time immemorial (see [[origins debate]]), though the last theory has only matured in the last 200 years.
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==Origin==
==Origin==
Educated people sagree about when and how the Earth was created:
#That the Earth came into existence billions of years ago (approximately 4.5 billion years in modern estimates), entirely through natural processes and without any intervention by God.
#That the Earth came into existence billions of years ago (approximately 4.5 billion years in modern estimates), entirely through natural processes and without any intervention by God.
== Young Earth Creationist view ==
== Young Earth Creationist view ==