As A Young Earth Creationist Christian,why Do You Think So Many Of The YEC Arguments Of The 1960′s Have Been..?
……debunked and replaced with other arguments? Aren’t the massive numbers of “revisions” in Young Earth Creationist arguments problematic when YECs so often accuse evolutionary biology of having made mistakes such as Piltdown Man?OPTIONAL BACKGROUND TO THE QUESTION:When I left my atheism to become a Christian in the 1960′s, I was initially a Young Earth Creationist because Christians told me that if I believed the Bible, that was the only honest option. However, looking back (and even browsing through the books I was given back then) I’m amazed how many of the ARGUMENTS FOR YEC BACK THEN are now rejected even by most YEC Christians. (They were simply bogus science that didn’t hold up under scrutiny and/or later discoveries.) For example: They claimed that the rate of interstellar dust landing on earth each day would have created a huge quantity if the earth were billions of years old. We now know better. Anyway, YECs still criticize the theory of evolution for past mistakes (as if the process of ongoing correction of errors is not a routine part of science) BUT DOESN’T THE HISTORY OF YEC PUBLISHING HAVE FAR MORE MISTAKES?
That’s because YEC is based on a mistake: Believing that the biblical account of creation is trustworthy.>>”(They were simply bogus science that didn’t hold up under scrutiny and/or later discoveries.)”And the new arguments are still bogus.
Do you think maybe you could give a heaving dying bloody world a hand for a second, FIRST.
YEC’s are a minority in this world for a REASON.
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What exactly are these”mistakes” to which you refer ?
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In philosophy, “bulls
*” is a technical term, indicating that the arguments made are not honest — they are made to further an agenda, and are put forward regardless of the truth.
YEC is totally bulls
*. Its arguments change as needed. When one is falsified, another pops up. The discussion is full of “zombie arguments”, points that, even though long refuted, still come up again and again.
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