Originally posted by shunyadragon
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Moreover, and very importantly, in "City of God" while Augustine does indeed say that "not 6,000 years have passed since the creation of man" he also quite clearly states that:
So this definitely leaves room for an old earth but a young human race. And of course nobody is claiming that that the earth is eternal.
I own that I do not know what ages passed before the human race was created, yet I have no doubt that no created thing is co-eternal with the Creator.
So this definitely leaves room for an old earth but a young human race. And of course nobody is claiming that that the earth is eternal.
He thought that humanity was young[1] but does not necessarily think that the Earth is young as well -- "I own that I do not know what ages passed before the human race was created."
So how does that fit into your claim?
1. keep in mind that we had no scientific understanding of what constituted being "human" back then. Definitions could be radically different, including defining mankind as when God breathed the breath of life into them.
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