Sunday Supplement 03: Usher-ing In

In Ed Dickerson’s latest reply to my questions about Genesis, he goes into some detail about the genealogies and Genesis and argues that their purpose is not to establish the age of the earth.

Ed goes into this in more detail in another of his Grounds for Belief videos which you can watch here, pre-emptively answering some of my questions (although I still think that even if you allow for gaps in the chronology, inserting a gap between Noah and Shem, or anywhere else, is not going to get you anything like the timescale you need to line up with the existing evidence about human origins).

Anyway, here’s my latest reply: