The same theory, with its false and inconceivable distances and magnitudes, operates to destroy all the ordinary, common sense, and scripturally authorised chronology. Christian and Jewish commentators, unless astronomically educated, hold and teach that the Earth, as well as the Sun, Moon, and Stars, were created about 4,000 years before the birth of Christ, or less than 6,000 years before the present time. But if many of these luminaries are so distant that their light would require above a million of years to reach us; and if, as we are taught, bodies are visible to us because of the light which they reflect or radiate, then their light _has_ reached us, because we have been able to see them, and therefore they must have been shining, and must have been created at least _one million nine hundred thousand years ago_! The chronology of the bible indicates that a period of six thousand years has not yet elapsed since “the Heavens and the Earth were finished, and _all_ the Host of them.” In the modern astronomy, Continents, Oceans, Seas, and Islands, are considered as together forming one vast Globe of 25,000 miles in circumference. This has been shown to be fallacious, and it is clearly contrary to the plain, literal teaching of the scriptures. In the first chapter of Genesis, we find the following language: “and God said let the waters under the heaven be gathered unto one place, and let the _dry land_ appear; and it was so. And God called the dry land _Earth_, and the gathering together of the waters called He Seas.” Here the Earth and Seas--Earth and the great body of waters, are described as two distinct and independent regions, and not as together forming one Globe which astronomers call “the Earth.” This description is confirmed by several other passages of scripture. 2 _Peter_, iii., 5--“For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the Word of God the Heavens were of old, and the Earth _standing out of the waters and in the waters_.” _Psalms_ cxxxvi., 6--“O give thanks to the Lord of Lords, that by wisdom made the heavens, and that _stretchet out the earth above the waters_.” _Psalms_ xxiv., 1, 2--“The earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof; the world and they that dwell therein: for he hath _founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods_.” _Hermes_ (New Testament Apocrypha)--“Who with the word of his strength fixed the heaven; and _founded the earth upon the waters_.” _Job_ xxvi., 7--“He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the Earth upon nothing.”