To provide defense against these sporadic attacks, the early settlers erected a series of forts in the area. Wood's Fort guarded the Forks-of-the-River just downstream from Newport, and McCoy's Fort and Whitson's Fort defended the area to the south.
The Solar System formed 4.6 billion years ago from the gravitational collapse of a giant interstellar molecular cloud. The vast majority of the system's mass is in the Sun, with most of the remaining mass contained in Jupiter.
Science tells us the earth is ~4.5 x 10 9 years old. The universe is ~14 x 10 9 years old. There have been several Christian scientists who have attempted to propose theories and find scientific evidence that the earth is only 6,000 years old.