"What is truth?" asked Pontius Pilate as Truth incarnate stood before him.¹ Whether the Roman governor was interested in the answer is doubtful, but we must ask ourselves who was really put "on trial" that day. Jesus? Yes, of course. But so was Pilate.

When Abraham was born, how old (or young) was the earth? Can we know the answer with confidence? Yes, if God has given us the information we need in Genesis. And He has. But to recognize it requires reading, writing, and 'rithmetic--and one more critical ingredient: avoiding the irrelevant issue of whether Genesis genealogies are "open" or "closed."

"Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven." (Luke 10:20)

"Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord." (Jeremiah 8:7)