THE GAP THEORY – AN IDEA WITH HOLES?
From time to time this old chestnut comes across my palm wood desk at the zoo. It was conceived by men as a way to fit the supposed “millions of years of evolution” into the Bible. One of my my favourite authors, on the subject of Creation, is the late Dr Henry Morris, known as “the father of Creation Science”. His classic book “The Genesis Record” is essential reading, Click on his name at the top of the article below for his biography. In the article Dr Morris addresses the fallacy of the “Gap Theory”, (he has also written a whole book on the subject). Read and be strengthened in your faith. Don’t forget to subscribe to Creation Magazine: https://creation.com/magazines Gibber! Gibber! Chugley The gap theory—an idea with holes? by Henry M. Morris ‘In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth’ (Genesis 1:1).‘And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.’ (Genesis 1:2). Many people assume there is a great gap in time between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2. Most of these do this to accommodate the geological age system of billions of years of supposed earth history in the Genesis record of creation. The idea is something like this: billions of years ago God created the spacemass-time universe. Then the geological ages took place over billions of years of earth history. The different forms of life developed that are now preserved in the fossil record. These life-forms represent those ages – the invertebrates of the Cambrian Period, the dinosaurs of the Cretaceous Period … finally the mammals, birds and ‘ape-men’ of the Tertiary Period – just before the recent epoch. Then the idea is that, at the end of these geological…