Abstract
Our culture inundates us with the claim that the earth is millions of years old. It is presented as fact in kids' books, TV shows, and textbooks-even on cereal boxes. It's around nearly every corner of our lives. But in Genesis, the Bible tells us that God created everything in six days. It repeats this claim in many other places, like Exodus 20:11 and 31:17, and Jesus affirms the Genesis account in Mark 10:6. You wouldn't think that these two opposite views could ever be reconciled, but Christians have tried. When the idea of long ages first became popular in the 1800s, a Christian named Thomas Chalmers began to popularize the gap theory.