807: How Old Is the Earth? Dr. Tremper Longman
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🗓️ 3 August 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Tremper is one of the top evangelical Old Testament scholars alive today, and he's an evolutionary creationist. In this conversation, Tremper explains why he believes that the science clearly shows that the universe and the earth are old and that this fits perfectly fine with Genesis 1-2. Genesis is simply uninterested in the age of the earth.
We discuss the meaning of "day," the phrase "evening and morning," the problem of the sun and moon being created on the 4th day (i.e. how do we determine a "day" without a sun or moon?), and the connection with the Sabbath command in Exod 20/Deut, which seems to assume a literal 24 hour day in Genesis 1.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology and Nara. We are going to dig into the Old Testament for this conversation. In particular, we're going to look at Genesis 1 and its relationship to science. How old is the earth? How does evolution fit into the creation account? |
| 0:17.8 | Are the days of Genesis 1 literal and on and on it goes |
| 0:23.1 | Tremper Longman, Dr. Trimper Longman, |
| 0:26.7 | the third is one of the top evangelical scholars |
| 0:31.8 | in the country today. |
| 0:33.8 | He used to teach at Westminster Theological Seminary and also Westmont College of California. |
| 0:38.7 | And it's just absolutely brilliant. |
| 0:40.0 | The dude has written more books than I've read and I'm talking about like high-powered |
| 0:43.9 | academic engaging thorough thoughtful books. His specialty which we don't get |
| 0:49.1 | into is on love poetry in the ancient Near East. he has written the definitive I think that the definitive |
| 0:55.6 | commentary on the song of songs but we don't get into that we just talk about |
| 0:59.9 | Genesis 1 science and creation. |
| 1:03.4 | Tremper is my go-to guy because he is thoroughly committed to the authority of |
| 1:08.7 | scripture and yet he is also thoroughly aware of outside things like science and how we should pay attention |
| 1:18.7 | to both special revelation and general revelation. Revelation. |
| 1:24.0 | And then we're going to do another podcast where we discuss specifically the historicity of Adam. |
| 1:30.0 | Okay, so for this episode we're talking about creation and the age of the earth. |
| 1:34.0 | For the next episode with Tremper, we're going to talk about the historicity of Adam is Adam. |
| 1:39.0 | An actual historical figure that every single human being come from Adam, how does that square |
| 1:45.9 | with the human genome project led by Francis Collins and other scientific issues that |
| 1:51.6 | seem to present some issues with the way Genesis one to three |
| 1:56.2 | presents human origins. If you'd like to support the show you can go to |
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