WHY YOUNG EARTH CREATIONISM IS WRONG

WHY FIGHT CREATIONISM?

THIS IS A SERIOUS ISSUE WHICH MAY IMPERIL CHRISTIANITY BY CREATING AN ANTI-RATIONAL CLIMATE OF WILLFUL IGNORANCE.

I'M ON A MISSION AND I'M OUT TO SAVE YOUR MIND

WHAT IS EVOLUTION ?

AREN'T YOU A CHRISTIAN? SO WHY ARE YOU FIGHTING CREATIONISM?

BECAUSE CREATIONISM BETRAYS THE TRUTH. IT IS BUILT ON FALSEHOODS, HALF-TRUTHS AND IGNORANCE. THESE SHOULD BE CLEAR SIGNS THAT CREATIONISM ISN'T OF GOD

What's wrong with Young Earth Creationism [YEC]? You might be suprised to discover just how many flaws and errors there are in Science, and Young Earth Creationists [YECs] will gleefully point these out to you. But how many of their theories and proofs of a Young World actually hold water? I would claim none do, unless plagiarised from real scientific work.

Young Earth Creationism itself is only a recent invention of certain Fundamentalist engineers and scientists. By "Creationism" I usually specifically mean Young Earth Creationism rather than the various beliefs which accept the findings of geology and astronomy that indicate an ancient Universe, but posit an active role for God in the origin of living things.

YOUNG EARTH CREATIONISM was revived in the sixties after the lone efforts of Macready-Price in the 1930s. Henry Morris, Gary Parker, Duane Gish, Melvin Cook and others kicked off the modern YEC Crusade. They sought to discredit the dating systems of modern geology to make the likelihood of EVOLUTION even less. Evolution was perceived by them to be an unlikely, Godless process that they had to discredit by any argument. To date none of their arguments for a Young Earth or Universe has stood up to serious scrutiny.

WHAT ARE THOSE ARGUMENTS, AND WHAT IS THE CASE AGAINST THEM? I CAN ONLY GIVE A FEW ARGUMENTS, BUT THESE ARE SOME OF THE MOST COMMON AND SEEMINGLY THE MOST SOUND.

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In a similar vein less extreme forms of Creationism have misrepresented the facts to disprove the case for Biological evolution. The arguments they use are often word for word the arguments of the YECs, and I'll be taking issue with moderate Creationism at...

In 1938 Harold Clark [a disciple of the Flood geologist, George Macready Price] was invited by a student to visit the oil fields of Oklahoma and northern Texas, where Mr. Clark saw with his own eyes why geologists believed as they did. Observations of deep drilling and conversations with practical geologists gave Clark a real shock that permanently erased any confidence he had left in Price's vision of a topsy-turvy fossil record.

Clark wrote to Price: 'The rocks do lie in a much more definite sequence than we have ever allowed. The statements made in your book, The New Geology, do not harmonize with the conditions in the field. All over the Midwest the rocks lie in great sheets extending over hundreds of miles, in regular order. Thousands of well cores prove this. In East Texas alone are 25,000 deep wells. Probably well over 100,000 wells in the Midwest give data that has been studied and correlated. The science has become a very exact one. Millions of dollars are spent in drilling, with the paleontological findings of the company geologists taken as the basis for the work. The sequence of the microscopic fossils in the strata is remarkably uniform. The same sequence is found in America, Europe, and anywhere that detailed studies have been made. This oil geology has opened up the depths of the earth in a way that we never dreamed of twenty years ago.' [Donald R. Prothero, Snake Handlers and Flood Geologists: A Review Essay of The Creationists by Ronald L. Numbers, The Skeptic, Vol. 2, no.2, 19']...a quote from Ken Harding's Evolution Site...

WHAT IS EVOLUTION?

Who Is God?

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