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Note: Creation Moments exists to provide Biblically sound materials to the Church in the area of Bible and science relationships. This Bible study may be reproduced for group use.

The Concept of evolution contains within itself the idea that the world is progressing, getting better and becoming more what it can or should be. If the world evolved from cosmic dust, and life spontaneously arose and developed into ever higher and more complex forms, then that idea would fit. But the world was, we believe and confess, created by our God only a few millennia ago.

1. Just how does the modern geologist tell the age of a rock by simply looking at it? For that matter, where do all those millions of years come from and how can they be reconciled with Genesis? It is always good to know where ideas originate and why but first a very important but seldom reported fact, even among creationists, about rock strata. Everyone today has been taught that each layer of rock typically seen in road- cuttings, was laid down as sediment, one upon another, from a sequential series of floods in the past.