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The gap year is a popular option for college-bound students looking for a wider range of experiences. Of course, it’s really only a gap if you expect education to involve continuous matriculation; for the student it’s not a gap at all. Now, how about a gap century, or gap millennium, or longer? For William Buckland, the subject of this weeks’ chapter from When Science and Christianity Meet, a gap between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2 helped to resolve questions about the chronology of creation posed by geological discoveries he and his colleagues were making. One of the things I appreciated from Mott Greene’s essay was learning more about the events proposed for that period, since the Earth didn’t actually experience a gap.
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