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Old Earth Creationism (OEC) is an umbrella of theological views encompassing certain varieties of creationism which may or can include day-age creationism, gap creationism, progressive creationism, and sometimes theistic evolution.
Two main concordist approaches to resolving the tension between Genesis and scientific dating of the earth have been popular since the mid-nineteenth century: the “day-age theory,” which still has numerous advocates (including Ross), and the “gap theory,” which is now nearly extinct.
Old-earth creationists adamantly reject the Darwinian concept of common descent—the hypothesis that all plant, animal, and human life ultimately evolved from primitive single-celled organisms through unguided mutations and naturalistic processes.
Doesn’t a belief that Earth is billions of years old exalt science over the Bible? Old-earth creationists believe that God has revealed Himself to humanity in two ways: (1) through special revelation (God’s word) and (2) through general revelation (God’s world).
To young Earth creationists, no amount of empirical evidence that the Earth is billions of years old is likely to refute their claim that the world is actually young but that God simply made it appear to be old.
Sparked by the opening of a creationist attraction called Ark Encounter in Kentucky, I offered suggestions for how to stand up against young-Earth creationism that is paraded as science.
Old Earth Creationism, as a theological-scientific synthesis of the Bible and creation, predates Darwinian evolution by nearly half a century. Generally, those who call themselves Old Earth Creationists today oppose evolution.
Gap creationism (also known as ruin-restoration creationism, restoration creationism, or the Gap Theory) is a form of old Earth creationism that posits that the six-yom creation period, as described in the Book of Genesis, involved six literal 24-hour days, but that there was a gap of time between two distinct creations in the first and the ...
Old Earth Creationism reconciles the doctrine of special creation with an old earth in various ways. Some interpret the six days of creation in Genesis to be of unspecified length, stretching them out to fit the results of scientific studies.
Day-age creationism, a type of old Earth creationism, is an interpretation of the creation accounts in Genesis. It holds that the six days referred to in the Genesis account of creation are not literal 24-hour days, but are much longer periods (from thousands to billions of years). The Genesis account is then reconciled with the age of the Earth.