Opinion of Young Earth Creationism

[DC Al Fine]

Obviously it's incorrect, but I think its poor reputation is undeserved.

The notion that YEC is harmful and ought to be eradicated is risible, particularly when one considers some of the ideas it's grouped in. Creationism is hardly as bad as racism or anti-vaccination, and several false ideas worse than it seem to get a pass.

Frankly, YEC is a sort of condensed symbol for a certain sort of low church, generally lower class Protestant. A lot of the criticism of it seems to be a pretext for chauvinism and classism against those people. And just so you don't think I'm secular-bashing, this seems to be just as much of a problem within the church as it is outside of it.

Do these people actually still exist? I've never met one in real life.

I know several, most notably my wife. Most of the ones I know keep pretty quiet about it outside of their Evangelical subculture, so it's not that surprising that you haven't met an open Young Earth Creationist, given your religion, location, education etc.

[DC Al Fine]

My main issue with Young Earth Creationism is this: (1) people who believe in it (without a single exception I know of) are fundamentalist or evangelical Christians who believe you must accept Jesus as your personal savior (and by implication, the Bible as the Word of G-d) or else go to Hell, and who (2) believe G-d is omnipotent, omniscient, and all-loving.

So, this G-d deliberately deceived his created beings by creating fossils, etc. in the earth to give it the appearance of being ancient.

If I may.... what a monster.

I chose option 3.

That's an unusual take. All the YECers I know say they're a result of Noah's flood and what not.

[DC Al Fine]

My main issue with Young Earth Creationism is this: (1) people who believe in it (without a single exception I know of) are fundamentalist or evangelical Christians who believe you must accept Jesus as your personal savior (and by implication, the Bible as the Word of G-d) or else go to Hell, and who (2) believe G-d is omnipotent, omniscient, and all-loving.

So, this G-d deliberately deceived his created beings by creating fossils, etc. in the earth to give it the appearance of being ancient.

If I may.... what a monster.

I chose option 3.

That's an unusual take. All the YECers I know say they're a result of Noah's flood and what not.

True, but the interpretations that requires (such as the Cretacious and Triassic fossils being buried in a difference of a matter of months, as the premier creationist organization Answers in Genesis argues) would require rates of radioisotope decay to change so quickly during the Flood Period that were it not for supernatural intervention, the Earth would explode as a result of the extreme level of radiation. released over such a quick period of time.  

That's all correct, but I'm not discussing it with them in depth. All I was commenting on is that I've never heard the "God set this up to be a test of faith argument" among the actual creationists I know.

Science has always been a big passion of mine, so I'm sorry if I'm going into the weeds here.

No worries. It's never been my cup of tea,but we're posting on a politics forum so we should all understand why one might be obsessed with a topic