The book of
Genesis in the Bible gives a brief description of the creation of this
earth. A literal interpretation of that story indicates that plants and animals were
created about 7000 to 8000 years ago and that humans
were created about 6000 years ago The scientific story, however, is
that plants and animals evolved billions of years ago and that hominids,
the early ancestors of modern humans, evolved a few million years ago.
We thus see that there is a significant discrepancy between a literal
interpretation of the Bible and dating of the earth by scientists. One way of resolving this conflict is with the
correlation between hominids and the Fall of Adam that is given in Reconciliation of the Fall of Adam and Evolution.
