Revelations: Truths Revealed In the early seventeenth century, the overall consensus was that the Earth was created in the year 4004 B.C. The Church explained away marine fossils, occasionally found high in the mountains, as "the work of the devil, put there to test the believer's faith." This type of thinking went unchallenged until 1912, when Alfred Wegener proposed that not only was the earth much older but her continents actually drifted. This, of course, was immediately rejected by the scientific world. But his theories were given validation in the 1950's through the birth of a new...