Folklore has it, as reinforced in classrooms and national parks, that petrified wood takes "millions and millions" of years to form. I've listened as many people have protested the Biblical doctrine of the young earth. "It takes too long to petrify wood. The earth must be old."

“But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear” (I Peter 3:15).

“Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for His name” (Acts 15:14).

Our English word visit has come to mean a social call, but not so in the Greek, where it can mean to inspect, to look upon in order to help, or benefit.

“But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them and bring upon themselves swift destruction” (II Peter 2:1).