What of the long ages?
The evolutionist’s theory looks silly without eons of time to hide behind. This is one of the reasons evolutionists heavily push the belief that the earth is billions of years old. To the evolutionists’ credit, they have done a marvelous job in convincing the public to believe their beliefs. Namely, that the world is billions of years old. Christians don’t want to look ignorant, but then again, they don’t want to abandon the Bible either; hence the reason a lot of them attempt to squeeze long periods of time into the Bible. A Gap between Gen. 1:1 and 1:2. Some Christians have attempted to put long ages into the Bible by creating a ‘gap’ between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. This is commonly called ‘The Gap Theory’. Adherents of the Gap Theory have tried to justify putting long ages between these two verses by claiming God created His first creation, but in between the time of Genesis 1:1 and 1:2, Satan fell from Heaven and ruined that creation. Gap theorists believe this is why v. 2 states that
