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>>689685

I know kind of what you mean. I've nearly lost my faith due to all this YEC bollocks. I've always found their inherent dismissal of anything contrary to their ideas rather detrimental to the Christian cause. I believe Augustine discussed it in some length, basically saying "don't opine on a subject you know nothing about while preaching the gospel, otherwise no one will listen." To me, people like Ham and Hovind have done more harm to the faith of our people than Dawkins or Krauss ever could.

>>689764

Their infantile understanding of both the Bible and science as a whole, and ignorance on a subject without having some paranoid talking head preach it to them. My main qualm was with their "assessment" of hominin fossils. Most of their material is devoted to smearing their discoverers or the researchers rather than actually assessing the fossils in any great length.

>>689800

>The evidence for YEC in the Bible is overwhelming

Sure, as long as you have a horrid understanding of any scientific field, refuse to change on any stance, and would rather have some preacher stroke your persecution complex. At least be honest, and say you take it on faith.

>>689939

This but unironically

Reminder

>>689949

<Could you explain please why a young earth is not supported biblically

I think any view can be extrapolated from the Bible. For instance, the sun standing still in Daniel could be seen as evidence of a flat/geocentric universe, but it could be seen in a number of ways.

>Is it the purported age of the fossils or rather that creationists reject them as transitional?

More of the latter, and it's not their rejection, but rather their interpretation. They've placed themselves in this rather bad position where thr fossils must be (a) or (b), never between, and as such most of their interpretations seem contradictory to one another. I think Foley puts it best:

>Creationists, on the other hand, assert that apes and humans are separated by a wide gap. If this is true, deciding on which side of that gap individual fossils lie should be trivially easy. Clearly, that is not the case.

>>689957

>punctuated equilibrium replaced gradualism

Competing hypotheses yes, but one has not overtaken the other. Both have their own strengths and weaknesses, and both have been used at one time or another. The minute details may differ among them, but they both agree on one thing: they're related.