Free Church of Scotland

There's so many problems with those who believe in millions of years as Christians like that.

But then, then what happened was Thomas Chalmers, the founder of the Free Church of Scotland back in the 1800s, he said, "Oh, we can take the millions of years and put in a gap between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2." And he was the one who primarily, really, invented the, the gap theory, and, uh, it permeated our, our churches.

Uh, and then Darwin took the millions of years and said, "If you've got millions of years in geology, you got millions of years in biology." And actually, the man that helped popularize the millions of years was a man called Charles Lyell, who was an attorney, but who published this book, these books on geology, uh, popularizing millions of years.

And Darwin took them on the boat, The Beagle, with him, and, uh, he said, "If you apply that to biology," he noticed that animals change.

Notice this misleading quote from Hovind.

Thomas Calmers, a notable Scottish theologian and first moderator of the Free Church of Scotland, is credited with being the first proponent of the gap theory.

His proposal of the theory was first recorded in 1814 in one of his lectures in Edinburgh University.

Until 1814, no theologian had put forth the idea of a gap between Genesis 1-1 and 1-2.