There is something terrifying about the future. We are afraid of the unknown, and what is less known that what has yet to even be? Nevertheless, the divine command comes to us precisely as the will of the future.
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The Depths of Time
An insightful essay by Joe D. Burchfield entitled “The Age of the Earth and the Invention of Geological Time” discusses the concepts of “geological time” and “deep time”, tracing their usage back to the influential work of Charles Lyell at the start of the nineteenth century. “Geological time” occurs frequently in works having to do…