Right about it being a point of doctrine, or right about the assumption that only 6,000 years have passed since the fall of Adam? Unless Coggins believes in pre-Adamites, there is plenty of scientific evidence to suggest that this view is incorrect.
New Book of Mormon Evidence!!!!!!
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Polygamy Porter wrote:Stand up in GD class and espouse ideas of the earth being 50,000 100,000, 1,000,000 years old, HELL say it is 9,000 years old and see what general reaction you will get from the class.
As the teacher of a GD class I said that the Church had no official doctrine of Creation and then said that I believed it was roughly as old as the geologists tell me it is. No one reacted at all and we moved on.
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The Nehor wrote:As the teacher of a GD class I said that the Church had no official doctrine of Creation and then said that I believed it was roughly as old as the geologists tell me it is. No one reacted at all and we moved on.
My experience with this is similar. Most members put that kind of stuff in their "it's not pertinent to my eternal salvation" box and move on.
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Beastie...
First, who made you the expert?
And just because some scientists believe these bones are a few hundred thousand years old doesn't make it so.
Science has to adjust its information all the time and those tests they do to determine how old bones are... well who says they are accurate?
There is still a lot of evidence to be uncovered... just wait!
(wink)
~dancer~
First, who made you the expert?
And just because some scientists believe these bones are a few hundred thousand years old doesn't make it so.
Science has to adjust its information all the time and those tests they do to determine how old bones are... well who says they are accurate?
There is still a lot of evidence to be uncovered... just wait!
(wink)
~dancer~
"The search for reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings for it destroys the world in which you live." Nisargadatta Maharaj
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