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Genesis account; they hold that there was a gap of time in the biblical account that lasted an unknown number of years between a first creation in
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793:The Scientific Case Against Scientific Creationism
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592:creation account and geological science to be
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1122:The History of the Scofield Reference Bible
1105:(reprint ed.). Classic Reprint Press.
830:"Formless and Void: Gap Theory Creationism"
450:The Christian View of Science and Scripture
1143:(reprint ed.). Kessinger Publishing.
777:Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction
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662:without form and void
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1141:Dispensational Truth
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795:, Jon P. Alston, p24
537:Garner Ted Armstrong
533:Herbert W. Armstrong
1097:Custance, Arthur C.
759:Silurian hypothesis
575:Biblical patriarchs
509:Finis Jennings Dake
499:, L. Allen Higley,
365:day-age creationism
233:Creator in Buddhism
143:Omphalos hypothesis
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1033:, 1970, pp. 18-19.
909:Numbers(2006), p11
900:Numbers(2006) p208
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379:From 1814,
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71:Young Earth
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