Old Earth Or Young Earth - Which Belief Is The Recent Aberration? by Don Batten

This is a reading of an article by Don Batten at http://creation.com/old-earth-or-young-earth-belief and is read and posted here by permission of Creation Ministries International.

Many today, even Christians, accept the age of the earth at billions of years and claim that the ‘young-earth’ view is a recent invention of Protestant ‘fundamentalist’ churches. They claim that various Church Fathers or other ancient authorities wrote things that suggested they did not hold a ‘young-earth’ view.

However, such claims about the Church Fathers and Reformers have been shown to be wrong; for instance, in the rebuttal to the long-ager Hugh Ross, by Mark Van Bebber and Paul Taylor*. It’s vital to analyse what the scholars of the past actually said, instead of what people claim they said.

• The book by Van Bebber and Taylor is "Creation and Time—a Report on the Progressive Creationist Book by Hugh Ross" (Eden Productions, Mesa, Arizona, USA, 1994).