Footnote

b One of America’s leading geologists, Wallace Pratt, stated: “If I as a geologist were called upon to explain briefly our modern ideas of the origin of the earth and the development of life on it to a simple, pastoral people, such as the tribes to whom the Book of Genesis was addressed, I could hardly do better than follow rather closely much of the language of the first chapter of Genesis.” Commenting on the six “days,” he asked, “Are we not assured, indeed, that with the Creator, ‘a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day?’”​—The Lamp, Fall 1971, Vol. 53, No. 3.