The Gap Theory: Evidence Of Young Earth Creationism

Young Earth Creationism Young Earth Creationism is the notion that the created world is not the billions of years old that many people believe it to be. Young Earth Creationists believe that the earth is instead approximately 6,000 – 10,000 years old, a large difference to billions of years. Along with this they believe that that Biblical Creation was done in the literal time of six days, no more no less. Evidence for Young Earth Creationism can be found through the dating of certain matter such as the oldest trees (by their rings), the Sahara Desert and the Great Barrier Reef (by growth) and finding them all to be under 5,000 years old. Along with these there are many other evidences such as the amount of salt in the oceans, declining

The verses state that “in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was without form, and empty; and the darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters.” The gap, they claim is between the initial creation of the heaven and the earth and the six day creation in which life was introduced. The Gap Theory is a way for Christian Scientists to harmonize Evolutionist theory and popular thought of the billion year duration with Biblical creation. Gap theorists also bring into the mix the notion that there was a Pre-Adamic race, humans and creatures in existence before Adam and the six creation days. Some also hold to the idea that the fall of Lucifer happened at the time of the earth's first creation, leading to a chaotic and destroyed earth and therefore God needing to restore creation leading to the creation account of 6 days. I disagree with Gap Theory in many different areas, mostly because it seems to have no Biblical basis and all the evidence given is easily counteracted. The largest argument that I have seen against this is that if the Gap Theory were to be true along with the whole Pre-Adamic age then that allows for sin, bloodshed, and ruin all before the time of Adam's sin. This in turn destroys

Consequently, because the Bible has many sections of literature that are poetical they believe that Genesis 1 also a form of Hebrew poetry. Along with this hypothesis, it is believed that it has a certain array, a framework, in which it is set up, hence its name “The Framework Theory”. This framework asserts that Moses depicted God's Creation as two triads. These triads are sectioned off into to two being that the first is the Creation Kingdoms which are the first three days: light, sky and seas, dry land vegetation. The Creature Kings were created the last three days and those include the luminaries, sea creatures and winged creatures, and finally the land animals and man. Since these kingdoms and kings are all in subordinance to God who is the ultimate king, creation therefore ends on the 7th day. But they believe that Moses presented Creation as a week period made up of literal 24 hour days only in the sense that we would be able to understand it and so that Creation would have a sense of