creation and the theories relating to it. My first realization was that I find the framework

theory the most likely of all the theories because it was the theory with the least holes in it.

My second realization was that if all of us agreed on the main points of Genesis( God created

the earth, all things are special to Him , He is sovereign over all things ,ect) then it really

does not make a difference how it was all brought about and I think that when we let the method

of creation block our view of what God intended for us to get out of the book then we are

The way I think that the earth was created is the same idea as in the framework theory.

I think that the Genesis account was written to let us know that God is in control of all things

and created the earth and everything on it. I believe this because of the evidence presented in

the fossil record and the general discrepancies in the genesis account . The sequence of the

days makes no sense to me (i.e.. plants created before the sun and birds before insects) and the

Genesis account states that all animals coexisted together for a ti

formations we discussed in class. Some people argued that God created the earth to appear old

time to produce the earth we see now and the complex organisms that created us . The points

a bird) was where God intervened and allowed the change to occur skipping the middle phases so

they all point to an old earth theory and an evolutionary creation. The fossil record is the most

of years to achieve. Also the fossil records suggest a very old earth as well as the coral

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