![]() ![]() ![]() Kurt Wise at Dayton, TNĪbout 30 minutes into the film, paleontologist Kurt Wise explains what he refers to as the “five epochs of earth history.” Starting with Creation Week and ending with the Modern Epoch, he gives a rapid overview of the natural history of the earth. We did include one section that provides a short account of earth history. The film therefore progresses from rock layers, to fossils, to living things, to stars, and, eventually, to man. For a variety of reasons, we chose the latter. We could either explain the events of earth history in chronological order, or we could group them by topic. When we produced our documentary on Genesis, we had to make a choice. She could just as easily have asked about the stars, or plant fossils, or different types of animals, or ancient civilizations, or countless other things. Realizing this sort of age was far older than the one given in the Bible, she asked how the formation of the Rocky mountains fit into the timeline of earth history according to Genesis. My 13-year-old daughter recently showed me a geography textbook that said the Rocky Mountains were formed millions of years ago. ![]()
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