Based on Their Interpretation of the Old Testament of the Bible

question 28

Multiple Choice

Based on their interpretation of the Old Testament of the Bible, European thinkers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries commonly believed that the world was:

• A) about 6000 years old
• B) close to 5 billion years old
• C) infinitely old with no vestige of a "beginning"
• D) of indeterminate age

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