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So all of academia is wrong?  Every scientist on earth that studies archeology, geology, anthropology, physics,etc is wrong?  The Hubble telescope is wrong?  The James Webb telescope is wrong?  All the experimentation that independent labs replicate daily are wrong?  And your old book is right.  That's what you expect us to believe?  You've sure got your work cut out for yourself to actually demonstrate your claims to be true.

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-Doesn't believe in evolution because it's not in the Bible

-Believes in a pre-Trib Rapture that's not in the Bible

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Evolution is a sacramental belief of the Church of atheism.

Genesis is a Foundational belief required for Christianity. You can not reconcile evolution nor theistic evolution and be a Christian.

You may try, but it will fail. Evolution is a demonic idea to subvert belief in Christ.

It's Satan's attempt to be a "creator".

Most scientists & Christians were YEC. It takes more faith to believe in evolution with all the holes in the theory, than a Super natural creator who made it all on His timeline.

I didn't always feel this way. But, within the last 5yrs, I've come to realize this.

God didn't lie.

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1. I'm not taking the word of that website for ANYTHING.
2. Believing in a creator is NOT the same as being a young-Earth creationist.

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Maybe those fossils were laid down by great amounts of water. Maybe, evolutionists are forever looking for those transitions that had to happen by, at least, the millions, but yet are so elusive. But, then, that has nothing to do with the article, at least directly.

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Was God going to inspire Moses to lay out the nuts and bolts of the history and construction of the universe...which would do nothing to keep those rowdy Israelites in line, or give him a "Just so" story and move on to the ethical stuff that mattered to a tribe of Bronze Age sheepherders?
Physics, astronomy, archaeology, geology, anthropology...none of these disprove-or prove- the existence of God.
God, as a proposition, can neither be falsified or proven. It's faith. Proof actually negates faith, because it's no longer needed.
I don't have faith that gravity works, I can prove it. Understanding it is another story.
Faith in the message is its own reward, or not. Christianity insists on faith. Pascal's Wager doesn't work.

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Your analogy is flawed, but moving on.

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Evolution is a sacramental belief of the Church of atheism.

Genesis is a Foundational belief required for Christianity. You can not reconcile evolution nor theistic evolution and be a Christian.

You may try, but it will fail. Evolution is a demonic idea to subvert belief in Christ.

It's Satan's attempt to be a "creator".

Most scientists & Christians were YEC. It takes more faith to believe in evolution with all the holes in the theory, than a Super natural creator who made it all on His timeline.

I didn't always feel this way. But, within the last 5yrs, I've come to realize this.

God didn't lie.

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Was God going to inspire Moses to lay out the nuts and bolts of the history and construction of the universe...which would do nothing to keep those rowdy Israelites in line, or give him a "Just so" story and move on to the ethical stuff that mattered to a tribe of Bronze Age sheepherders?
Physics, astronomy, archaeology, geology, anthropology...none of these disprove-or prove- the existence of God.
God, as a proposition, can neither be falsified or proven. It's faith. Proof actually negates faith, because it's no longer needed.
I don't have faith that gravity works, I can prove it. Understanding it is another story.
Faith in the message is its own reward, or not. Christianity insists on faith. Pascal's Wager doesn't work.

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Yes, they were.

https://creation.com/scientists-of-the-past-who-believed-in-a-creator

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I'm a preacher's kid. I know a lot of preachers. They all believe Genesis is a parable but they're not going to say that in public because of stupid people in their congregation like the OP.

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Evolution is a sacramental belief of the Church of atheism.

Genesis is a Foundational belief required for Christianity. You can not reconcile evolution nor theistic evolution and be a Christian.

You may try, but it will fail. Evolution is a demonic idea to subvert belief in Christ.

It's Satan's attempt to be a "creator".

Most scientists & Christians were YEC. It takes more faith to believe in evolution with all the holes in the theory, than a Super natural creator who made it all on His timeline.

I didn't always feel this way. But, within the last 5yrs, I've come to realize this.

God didn't lie.

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The article is certainly not for me.  I highly recommend you go to your local community college and start reading.  There's a lot of books out there.  Some comport to reality better than others.  Actual science is a good place to start.  It isn't too late to escape ignorance.

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If you ignore thing like geology and physics, absolutely.

Anything is possible if you're comfortable just making shit up.

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Yes, they were.

https://creation.com/scientists-of-the-past-who-believed-in-a-creator

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No, it's that retarded.

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Well shit  if creation.com says creation is legit, that's good enough for me!!

In other news, KarlMarxisawesome.com says communism is the best thing ever.

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How do you know that some for of science didn't exist? They understood how pro-creation worked, they understood and had a pretty good idea of how to build things and survive. They moved from the stone age to the bronze age and so forth. "Science" means knowledge, they had some, maybe more than we think.

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Evolution is a sacramental belief of the Church of atheism.

Genesis is a Foundational belief required for Christianity. You can not reconcile evolution nor theistic evolution and be a Christian.

You may try, but it will fail. Evolution is a demonic idea to subvert belief in Christ.

It's Satan's attempt to be a "creator".

Most scientists & Christians were YEC. It takes more faith to believe in evolution with all the holes in the theory, than a Super natural creator who made it all on His timeline.

I didn't always feel this way. But, within the last 5yrs, I've come to realize this.

God didn't lie.

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Actually I don't. I vehemently disagree with the "Ancient Aliens" theorists who insist that the Egyptians couldn't stack rocks.
As far as pillage and murder today?
The Old Testament is NC-17.

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The linked article assumes that young earth creationism is what the Bible teaches.  In fact, this is a misunderstanding of the Bible.  The Bible was written long before the invention of science.  It was written to people who knew nothing about science (which did not exist), geology, biology or anything of the sort... and the audience cared nothing about these non-existent fields of study.  There is no science in the Bible as a result.  Trying to pull scientific information where it does not exist yields absurdities, like saying the earth must be 6,000 years old or so.

No one who wrote or read the Bible (in the original audiences) cared about this, nor was the Bible written to address these topics.

The Bible as written reflects the worldview of the ancient near east audience, and should be read with this in view to prevent confusion.

For example, the seven days of creation have an weird format.

Day 1 is creation of light.  Three days later is the creation of the sources of light (sun and moon).

Day 2 is the creation of the firmament (division between the water and heavens).  Three days later is the creation of the sea and air creatures (winged animals).

Day 3 is the creation of dry land and plants.... three days later is the creation of land animals and people.

Do you catch this pattern?  The days of Genesis are not in any kind of chronological order, they are a poetic structure...

The creation story is in the form on an ancient poem glorifying God for creating the heavens and the earth, it is not supposed to tell us that light was created before the sun... Young earth creationist torture the bible to try and find science that would have just confused ancient people.

If you are interested in learning to read Genesis, and understand it like the original audience did (well, at least as much as we can) there is a really good book that covers this topic, A Worldview Approach to Science and Scripture by Carol A. Hill.

I would like to add that I do not think that creationists are stupid, or anything of the sort.  It is a very easy mistake to make when reading the Bible... modern men, who practice and care about science read the Bible and try and work their worldview into it... is natural to us, but would be utterly alien to the original audience of the Bible.

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We're not talking about what I claim, we're talking about YOU saying most early scientists of the west were YEC.  Then you totally blow off the fact that they probably had no interest whatsoever in the concept.  They believed in a God who created the universe.  Not the same thing.

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No, it's not flawed.  YEC teaches that God created the universe 6-10,000 years ago and made it so we can see the light from stars hundreds of thousands of light-years away even though they wouldn't have had time to reach us yet.  That's creation with the appearance of age.  If you go down that path, yes, you might as well say we were created two minutes ago with our memories in place and everything appearing to be older.

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The much bigger problem with YEC is the Y, not the C.

It's easy to splice a creator in with science and common sense.

It's impossible to incorporate a 6000 year old earth in with everything else we know.

As mentioned, you'd need to believe that millions of data points were planted false evidence.

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He's saying your source material is biased.

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I think young earth creationism is ridiculous.

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Science is a process of of coming up the ideas and testing them with experiments.  Ancient man did not do this, their world view was totally different.  Their worldview was mystical.  For example, for ancient man, all the numbers had mystical symbolism, in addition to being things you can use for calculations.  We have only a few remenants of this idea, such as the lucky number 7, and unlucky 13.  For the ancients, all numbers had symbolism!

When you look at the ages of the patriarchs in Genesis, they fall into bizarre patterns... they are not random at all... this is a huge hint that these ages are not meant to be taken literally, but are rather symbolic in nature... but we have lost the meaning of these symbolic numbers.

When modern man reads the ages of the patriarchs, we try and apply a scientific worldview to something that is mystical and symbolic in meaning... and people end up trying to calculate the age of the universe based on these lists of ages... it is based on a misunderstanding of the worldview of ancient man.

Genesis is not the only places where ages are used like this... there is a ancient list of Sumerian kings that gives reigns of thousands of years for some kings.  Because these numbers are symbolic, rather than literal.  It is a fascinating subject.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_King_List

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If one is to believe in a literal Genesis, it already requires an appearance of age.

Adam was formed fully mature, yet was not a full day old. I assume that was the same with every other living creature, unless you have eggs hatching themselves.

If the appearance of age was required for living creatures, then a fully 'adult' universe being made in six days isn't outside that model.

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Your interpretation does not comport with reality.

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How and when the Earth was created is not the important question. The relevant question is who you say Jesus Christ is.