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TCCSA Meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month (except August and December) at 7:30 to about 9:00 pm. They are now usually at Totino Fine Arts Center, in the room to the right side of the large auditorium (room 116) Northwestern College, 3003 North Snelling, Roseville Minnesota. Other locations would be announced and posted, such as room 115, on the left side of the large auditorium. Sometimes meetings are located in the Chapel in Nazareth Hall (the building just between the Totino Center and the lake).

The belief that the earth is billions of years old is an essential foundation for the theory of evolution. This belief was introduced to the Christian world by some very strange events.

Niels Stensen (1628-1686), Latinized to Nicolaus Steno, in 1666 moved from Denmark to Florence, then intellectual capital of Europe. He recognized rocks found on mountaintops, previously called "tongue stones," as fossil shark teeth and attributed them to the Biblical flood. He also described how mixed sediments deposited layers simultaneously, according to their density, in flowing water and subsequently consolidated into rock.

On November 2, 1667 while walking, he heard a woman's voice call to him telling him to cross the street to the house of one of his Catholic friends. He obeyed the voice and two days later, November 4, 1667, he made a formal conversion to the Roman Catholic faith. A year later he wrote the introduction to an anticipated larger work, published with the Catholic imprimatur in 1669, in which he ignored his previous evidence of simultaneous deposition and introduced what is now known as Steno's Law of Superposition, that the lower layers were laid down first.

Charles Lyell (1797-1875), the son of wealthy Scottish parents, while educated as a Christian, had difficulties with the Biblical miracles, especially with Noah and his Ark and looked for an alternative to the flood. He visited the Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli where three remaining marble columns of the Roman temple remained. About half-way up each column were holes made by lithodomi, a small sea- dwelling crustacean. Clearly, this meant that after construction of the Temple, the land had sunk below sea level then had risen again. In fact, the land began to sink slowly in the third century AD, then, in 1538, quickly rose again during volcanic activity from nearby Mount Nuovo. Lyell was delighted because this clearly meant rising sea levels were unnecessary; here was evidence that it was the land that could sink and rise.

The Temple of Serapis became an icon of truth to Lyell and an illustration of it appeared as the frontispiece to all 12 editions of his book, The Principles of Geology. The first edition appeared in 1830-33. It was written for the layman and popular, yet there were critics because the evidence for land sinking and rising was confined to local volcanic areas. Then good fortune stepped in because it happened that in 1835, during his 5-year voyage, the young Charles Darwin (1809-1882) had first-hand experience of land elevation "twice the area of the Black Sea" during the earthquake at Concepcion, Chile, when the land had risen 5 to 15 feet. This was exactly the evidence Lyell needed to counter his critics.