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Age of the Earth
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- The Bible dictionary says the Earth is 7,000 years old. Doctrine & Covenants say the 7 seals of the Earth represent 1,000 years. Yet human kind, scientifically speaking, is thousands of years old...way before 4,000 BC. Can you explain the contradcition, if there is one?
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