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• But YEC advocates are serious about their faith first and foremost, and deeply concerned about a trend toward nonliteral interpretations of the Bible, which might ultimately dilute the power of the scriptures to teach reverence for God to humankind. Young Earth Creationists argue that accepting anything other than acts of special divine creation du...
• In God and the Astronomers, the astrophysicist Robert Jastrow wrote this final paragraph: “At this moment it seems as though science will never be able to raise the curtain on the mystery of creation. For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is...
• One way to reduce the eons of history into a more comprehensible form is to imagine what would happen if the 4.5 billion years of the earth’s existence, from initial formation to today, were instead compressed into a twenty-four-hour day. If the earth was formed at 12:01 A.M., then life would appear at about 3:30 A.M. After a long day of slow progr...
• “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”6
• But the claims of Young Earth Creationism simply cannot be accommodated by tinkering around the edges of scientific knowledge. If these claims were actually true, it would lead to a complete and irreversible collapse of the sciences of physics, chemistry, cosmology, geology, and biology. As biology professor Darrel Falk points out in his wonderful ...