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“The rocks do date thefossils, but the fossils date therocks more accurately.Stratigraphy cannot avoid thiskind of reasoning if it insistson using only temporalconcepts, because circularity isinherent in the derivation oftime scales.” —O’Rourke, J.E., “Pragmatism versusMaterialism in Stratigraphy,”American Journal of Science,vol. 276 (January 1976), p. 53have been somewhere around ahundred years during whichtime Satan may have become jealous of the fellowship thatAdamandEveenjoyedwithGod.Satanmayhaveobservedtheirrelationshipforonehundredyears,andsaid,“Hey,Iwantthemto worship me! Iwant to rule humanity. Iwant to walk withthem in the garden. Iwill ascend unto the high heavens. Iwilltake over the seat of the Most High. Iwill, Iwill, Iwill.” (SeeIsaiah14)My theory is, and Icannot prove it, but Iam pretty convincedthatSatandidnotfalluntilonehundredyearsafterthecreation.Thefallcouldnothavebeen intheoriginalcreation becausehewasstillthelightbearerintheGardenofEden.Seeseminar#2formoreinformationonthistopic.20. Q:A:HowoldwasTerah when Abram was born 70 or 130?Thisisaninterestingquestion. Comparethefollowingverses:Gen. 11:26 “And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram,Nahor, and Haran.” Gen. 12:4 “So Abram departed, as theLORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: andAbramwasseventyandfiveyearsoldwhenhedepartedoutofHaran.” Acts 7:2-4 says “And he said, Men, brethren, andfathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our fatherAbraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt inCharran, And said unto him, Get theeoutof they country andfrom thy kindred, and come into the land which Ishall showthee. Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, anddwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead,heremovedhimintothisland,whereinyenowdwell.”ThebookofJasher(mentionedinJoshua10:13andIISam.1:18)is not inspired scripture but it is interesting ancient history. Ittellsus:Jasher 12:61 “And Abram hastened and ran to safety to thehouse of Noah and his son Shem...69. and Abram ceased tospeakwhenNoahandhissonShemansweredTerah...13:1. AndTerahtookhissonAbramandhisgrandsonLot,thesonofHaran,and Sarai hisdaughter-in-law, thewifeofhis sonAbram, and all the souls of his household and went with themfrom Ur Casdim to go to the land of Canaan. And when theycameasfarasthelandofHarantheyremainedthere,foritwasexceedingly good land for pasture, and of sufficient extend forthosewhoaccompaniedthem.2. And the people of the land of Haran saw that Abram wasgoodanduprightwithGodandmen,andthattheLordhisGodwaswithhim,andsomeofthepeopleofthelandofHarancameand joined Abram, and he taught them the instruction of theLord and his ways; and these men remained with Abram in hishouseandtheyadheredtohim.73Creation Science Evangelism •29 Cummings Road •Pensacola, Florida 32503