Caroline Winterer

But there are a growing number who today are known as the young earth creationists who begin to craft the first modern objection to deep time and they hang on.

to Archbishop Usher's 4004 BC creation date, and they begin to form a sort of onslaught against deep time.

By the early 1900s, they have a new Bible called the Schofield Bible, which begins with Genesis, but then it has the date, 4004 BC above it, saying, this is our date, right?

This is not mythological.

This is not just a story that was told long ago.

This is true.

And they begin to craft a whole school curricula and textbooks that say, yeah, you know, there's dinosaurs.

We have no problem with dinosaurs, but they're not ancient.

They're less than 6,000 years old.

Today, you can visit the Creation Museum outside of Cincinnati, Ohio, which is enormous.

It's very well attended.

Millions of people go there every year.

It's run by a group called Answers in Genesis, and they deny the antiquity of the Earth.

They deny the deep time revolution.

So they've built an ark recently where there are dinosaurs aboard.

So it's interesting.

Yeah, they track science in order to absorb it and reject it.

It's very interesting.

Yes.

And, you know, the deep time revolution carries all that with it, that as you're absorbing deep time, you're absorbing what, you know, at the time were believed to be the God given gifts of the Industrial Revolution, trains, fossil fuels, which actually is a term coined in the 1820s, along with natural resources and