Re: Age of the Earth
RMPCTA@aol.com
Sun, 10 Aug 1997 14:26:49 -0400 (EDT)
Maayan, Israel wrote:
<<When I was studying biology in high school, our teacher (frum) asked us
how can we possibly understand the scientific experiments about fossils
found to be "millions" or even "billions" of years old? Her answer was,
that according to some Rabbinic sources, the Mabul, Noach's flood, caused
heavy pressure on the universe and it could very well be that stones that
are only 5000 years old, appear to be much more ancient, because of the
utter havoc and upheaval that the flood caused to them. Food for thought!!>>
Not only the pressure at the flood, whose current was swift enough to leave
a landscape attributed to glaciers, but the pressure present throughout the
universe was adjusted by Hashem during creation so millions of light years
under current conditions could unfold in the blink of an eye.