YEC vs FE Part 1: Evidence for YEC

[Roy (34-year veteran)]

@AllenWitmerMiller

@jeffb

I’m believing you should be familiar enough with YEC to know that the fundamental stance (ignoring any “bad apples” among us) is a great appreciation for operational science.

I’m very familiar with it. And that entire argument they use about “operational science” versus “historical science” is among their lamest. (Yeah, it is a hard to avoid using the word “lame.”) It is largely a fabrication of the “creation science” community and rarely does one see science textbooks or the science academy using such terms as opposites. (The exceptions I’ve seen in scientific literature generally employ those terms quite differently from how YEC ministries use them.) The “operational science” versus “historical science” alleged distinction is a massive misunderstanding—or an outright gaslighting—of the nature of science. I try to be gracious to people like Georgia Purdom (who endlessly repeats it as a mantra) but it is hard to see it any other way. It sounds convincing to the general public but plants a giant face-palm with real scientists. (OK, I admit that I enjoy a good “pile on” sometimes and I hope the scientists on this forum reward me in that way.)

Yes, I admit that I look forward to the perspectives of the professional scientists on this forum about those terms.

Try looking backward instead