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Creation

Faith Q&A › Metropolitan Youssef › Our Lord and the Faith › Creation

The question

My philosophy professor says that Evolution if not true, at least it is a possibility; while Creationism on the other hand can definitely not be true because if God created the world in six days then the oldest fossils should be from that same time but that they are not. How can we respond to this?

The answer

If this professor had read the Holy Bible before attacking Creationism, he would have known that God had created the light in order to separate day from night on the fourth day. Therefore the days of creation are not twenty-four hour days but an unspecified number of years or an era.

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