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Creation Vs. Evolution  Search :  Questions and Answers: What is
the "Doctrine of Apparent Age"?  by  Kyle Butt, M.A.   What is
the “doctrine of apparent age”?   How old is the Earth? No one
knows the exact number of times this globe has orbited the Sun.
However, using biblical chronology, a person can calculate the
age of the Earth to be in the neighborhood of 6,000 years old.
“But the Earth looks millions of years old,” some people have
protested. There are at least two responses to such a statement.
First, one might ask: “Compared to what; what does a young Earth
look like?” We obviously do not have another Earth that we know
is younger than this one, so how would we know what a young
Earth looks like. Second, it should not surprise us if science
occasionally calculates older dates for the Earth, due to a
concept known as the “doctrine of apparent age.”  This idea
suggests that the things God made during the Creation week were
formed complete an