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The suggestion that this planet is only thousands of years old is considered ludicrous by contemporary geologists who calculate its age to be about 4.6 billion years. While scripture fails to support geologists on this point, a letter written by William W. Phelps (a close associate of Joseph Smith) to William Smith states that “eternity … has been going on in this system (not this world) almost two thousand five hundred and fifty five millions of years.” Phelps indicated that this information was gleaned—apparently by Joseph Smith—from the, as yet, unpublished portions of the writings of Abraham and Joseph. To say that eternity has been “going on” for some two and a half billion years in the “system” of which the earth is a part is most revealing.Share
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