Geology 2-1

• Based age of earth on biblical genealogy
• Declared earth was created at 9 am, October 26, 4004 B.C.
• Earth is 6016 years old

• Earth must be much older than 6000 years
• Vast amounts of time must have elapsed to result in the earth's surface as we see it today
• 1785; the theory of the earth

Earth was created almost instananeously and any c hange since that time occurred in catastrorphic events, usually floods

• James Hutton
• "The present is the key to the past"
• Geologic change occurs in impereptibly small and slow steps over vast amounts of time