# Thinking Creationist: How Science Denial  (And Its Undoing ) Transformed the

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**Created:** [April 25, 2019, 10:06pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/thinking-creationist-how-science-denial-and-its-undoing-transformed-the/5916 "2019-04-25T22:06:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 27, 2019, 4:28am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/thinking-creationist-how-science-denial-and-its-undoing-transformed-the/5916/13 "2019-04-27T04:28:40Z")

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> [@David\_MacMillan](#):
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> Thank you! It really plays into creationist’s hands when they can say, “See, if you doubt our all-knowing truthiness, you’ll lose your faith and descend into hedonism and burn in hell!” So for that reason (among others) I’m glad that I was able to rebuild my own faith after excising the science denial side of things.

Hi David. Im a young earth creationist more concerned about how folks are abandoning sound Biblical theology which is to be accepted by faith (theism) and trading it for trust in man’s science.(sciencism) I just read an article on the Gospel Coalition website here

> **[Theological Triage and the Doctrine of Creation](https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/theological-triage-and-the-doctrine-of-creation/)**
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> Sam Emadi considers what a theological triage on the doctrine of creation looks like and proposes 7 first-order points.

In this article it says “In [_Genesis in Space and Time_] for example, Francis Schaeffer did something similar by showing what Genesis 1–11 must be affirming in order for the rest of Scripture to be coherent and true.”

The author who brings this up, then proposes 7 points as drawn directly from Genesis that are essential in order to make sense of all of the rest of Scripture. You can read the article to see all 7, but i can tell you that one of them is that an historical Adam and Eve as the first humans to ever walk the earth is an essential from which the rest of Scriptural theology falls apart if not true.

But we see that mainstream science denounces the possibility that an historical Adam and Eve, the first humans existed 6000 yrs ago.

So how do you handle this? The Bible says that anything that does not flow from Biblical faith makes a pathway impossible to please God. Yet there seems to be a surge of Christian scientists who seem to want to dispell of this ideal for trust in what the science of man says. How do you handle this quagmire?

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