BIBLICAL & SCIENTIFIC ANSWERS

In the evolutionary view, early earth was not a pleasant place to live. A recent article summarizing research on the “origin of life” described early earth this way: “Earth’s first few hundred million years brought relentless impacts, intense volcanism and an atmosphere almost entirely devoid of oxygen.” And yet this new research claims the “last universal common ancestor” (LUCA) somehow evolved a mere 400 million years after earth formed.

Was earth a hostile, dangerous place for millions and millions of years as catastrophe after catastrophe afflicted it? That’s the view presented in the visually compelling, but evolution-filled, NBC documentary Surviving Earth.