BIBLICAL & SCIENTIFIC ANSWERS

We all interpret the words in Genesis, so whose interpretation is correct? We all interpret what we read because we have presuppositions concerning the type of literature, the meaning of words in context, and so on.

In the evolutionary view, early earth was not a pleasant place to live. A recent article summarizing research on the “origin of life” described early earth this way: “Earth’s first few hundred million years brought relentless impacts, intense volcanism and an atmosphere almost entirely devoid of oxygen.” And yet this new research claims the “last universal common ancestor” (LUCA) somehow evolved a mere 400 million years after earth formed.