Genesis and the Necessity of the Flood

[PDPrice (Paul Price)]

@thoughtful

@Tim

And there are even YECs, very well above averagely qualified ones at that, such as Kurt Wise and Todd Wood who admit that the evidence is more in favor of an Old Earth than of a Young one, but that they believe in YEC in spite of the evidence, and in the hope that they may at some later date discover evidence of equal weight.

This is why I say it is a Hebrews 11 belief. It is a belief currently weighted towards faith, not towards current evidence. Thomas demanded concrete evidence. Jesus said those were blessed who have not seen and believed. I am comfortable that my belief looks stupid, especially to those who are not Christians (who probably think it’s absolutely bonkers), but Jesus demands it.

They are very wrong to make that claim. They have apparently lost touch with the vital understanding that evidence must be interpreted, and our starting assumptions guide our interpretations. I would never say that the current state of the evidence favors old earth, because both the young and old earth paradigms run into anomalies and problems with certain things they cannot explain. Both are a set of starting assumptions that guide how all the evidence is interpreted. Without God’s testimony as to what happened, we could have no certainty at all about the age of the earth, and old earthers are constantly guilty of overplaying their hand.

@thoughtful

I’m not familiar with the strongest arguments tbh. All I currently know is evidence for young human origins: @swamidass geneological proposals and AIG’s Jeanson’s genetic work. But those don’t refer to animals, earth, or universe. What are your top #5?

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Age of the earth