How Has Deep Time Affected Religion

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Deep time is the concept of geologic time. Geologist James Hutton developed the concept of deep time which states that the earth was billions of years old instead of thousands of years old. Deep time describes time on a very large scale. Compared to the human life time scale, deep time is an unimaginable length of time deep time has effected people in several different ways. The ways people view evolution and religion are two of the major effects that deep time has made on people. The discovery of our planet’s history extends billions of years into the past has changed humanity’s perception of time. Deep time has changed the discoveries that people has made.
Deep time has effected religion greatly because people now see Christianity, Buddhism,

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