Islam Creator of the Modern Age
2. Holding Sacred that which is not Sacred
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THE AGE OF THE EARTH
Scientists have not been able to agree on the date of
man’s emergence on earth. However, they have
discovered some human skeleton, which they
believe to date back to ten thousand years before
Christ. The scientists do not, therefore, accept the
assertions on this subject made by the Bible.
According to the dates for the appearance of the
human race given in the book of Genesis, Adam
came to the world thirty seven hundred years
before Christ. The Jewish calendar, which follows
the data contained in the Old Testament, places the
dates very precisely. The second half of the
Christian year 1975 corresponds to the beginning of
the 5,736th year of the creation of the world.
According to modern science, this is wholly
unacceptable.
The Christians, as it would appear from biblical
narratives, had condensed the life-span of the earth
to within a few thousand years. The error of this
calculation, from the scientific point of view, came
to light in the eighteenth century when James
Hutton, a great geologist, carried out his
