The debate surrounding the age of the earth is both an extra-faith and intra-faith discussion. Between Christians and non-Christians, the debate usually presupposes the creation vs. evolution debate as well—non-Christians who argue for an old earth are convinced that evolution, not a Creator, is responsible for the life we see today. However, this is also a live debate within orthodox Christian circles. It is sometimes accompanied by the proposal of theistic evolution—that God created the world, but He used evolutionary processes to bring about life, and specifically mankind. In other circles, the discussion assumes that God miraculously created the world (and man!) out of nothing, by speaking everything into existence, but it simply questions the length of the process.

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