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in matters of scientific fact. Gap creationists believe that certain facts about the past and the age of the Earth have been omitted from the
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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1133:The History of the Scofield Reference Bible
1116:(reprint ed.). Classic Reprint Press.
841:"Formless and Void: Gap Theory Creationism"
461:The Christian View of Science and Scripture
1154:(reprint ed.). Kessinger Publishing.
788:Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction
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218:"Teach the Controversy"
183:Creationist cosmologies
817:"What is Creationism?"
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1152:Dispensational Truth
1086:Chafer, Lewis Sperry
806:, Jon P. Alston, p24
548:Garner Ted Armstrong
544:Herbert W. Armstrong
1108:Custance, Arthur C.
770:Silurian hypothesis
586:Biblical patriarchs
520:Finis Jennings Dake
510:, L. Allen Higley,
376:day-age creationism
244:Creator in Buddhism
154:Omphalos hypothesis
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1044:, 1970, pp. 18-19.
920:Numbers(2006), p11
911:Numbers(2006) p208
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