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You're listening to episode 119 of Jimmy Akin's mysterious world

where we look at mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason.

In this episode, we're talking about whether the Bible teaches

that we live on a young earth. I'm Dom Betanelli and joining me today is Jimmy Akin. Hi Jimmy.

Howdy Dom. For many centuries, Jews and Christians have read the Bible

and thought that the world is only a few thousand years old.

But after the scientific revolution began, many began to suspect that it's far, far older,

billions of years old. Today, many Jews and Christians believe that we live on an

old earth and see no conflict with their faith. But there are still those who hold that we live

on a young earth. Some offer critiques of the scientific arguments that it's old.

What are we to make of this? What does the biblical and scientific evidence really say?

And how is it being misread and by whom? That's what we'll be talking about on this episode

of Jimmy Akin's mysterious world. So Jimmy, first we should say something about how we came to

pick this particular topic. Yeah. So if you are one of our patrons at a certain level,

we give you the benefit of being able to pick a show topic. And this time,

we had two patrons who picked very similar topics. One of them was Joe Colbe, who wanted me to talk

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