RE: [asa] YEC prior to 1950

Dr. Campbell said: " Young earth was largely gone from academic Christianity"

... then how did they reconcile the old earth with Adam? I'm thinking they have the Roman Catholic idea-- evolution making man biologically and God doing something special with the soul starting with Adam?

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Subject: Re: [asa] YEC prior to 1950

> If the YEC movement started around 1950, then prior to that how did
> Baptists (for example) reconcile belief of an old earth with a recent
> creation of Adam? Was it the gap theory? Or was the contention never rally
> addressed?
>

Not sure what denomination, but I've encountered stuff from the late
1800's that was using Ussher's chronology. Young earth was largely
gone from academic Christianity but not from Sunday school during the
late 1800's and early 1900's.

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Dr. David Campbell
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