Young Earth Creationism has a problem, a serious problem, and here's why.
Most of what passes off for so-called science by young earth creationists or YECs is little
more that simply trying to put together twisted mental gymnastics to explain away solid, hard,
real science.
This is how young earth creationists roll, and I've seen it a million times.
They will find a perceived flaw in a system or theory, (that of course old earth creationists
would not agree with) and then they, exclaim, "Oh look, the earth is 6,000 YEARS OLD!"
Here's how young earth creationist "research" works…
Light gets manipulated in the laboratory THEREFORE the Earth is 6,000 years old!
Sediment at Mt St Hellen's THEREFORE 6,000 years!
C14 found in diamonds THEREFORE 6,000 years!
Dinosaur tissue reconstituted for a month to make it soft THEREFORE 6,000 years!
Polystrate Tree Fossils THEREFORE 6,000 years!
Bent rock layers THEREFORE 6,000 years!
Decay of Earth's magnetic field THEREFORE 6,000 years!
Comets THEREFORE 6,000 years!
That's how it goes on every YEC blog, ministry website, Facebook page, Twitter account, you
name it.
Give me an hour and I could come up with 50 more examples of the same manipulative twisting
of science by young earthers such as Ken Ham, Dr Jason Lisle and Answers in Genesis.
But the fatal flaw in all of this taking apart of the work of others is that NONE of that
ever gets them to a 6,000 year old universe.
Simply pointing out a flaw, even if it were real, does not bolster your position.
Trying to tear down the work of real science NEVER builds solid evidence for your argument.
It does not move your position forward.
It never gets you to the spot that young earth creationists need to be to be taken seriously
by the scientific as well as the rest of the Christian community.
Seriously, where is your research?
Where are your measurements?
Where are your calculations?
Where is your solid scientific evidence for a 6,000 year old universe?
Surely if YECs think they are interpreting Genesis 1 correctly, there would be a solid
scientific measurement they could show the world to prove their position.
If it were true, it should be amazingly easy.
I've been asking this question for a couple of months now over at the Institute for Creation
Research Facebook page and all I get is a link to the same article over at Answers in
Genesis that is supposedly 10 evidences for a young earth.
NONE of the 37 or so article referenced in that article point to a 6,000 year old universe.
Not one credible measurement, not one credible calculation, not one thing that solidly moves
us towards a 6,000 year old universe.
Where is your OWN science?
It is time for the YEC community as a whole to present to the world a good scientific
theory as to how the universe we have today is only 6,000 years old.
It's time to come up with the solid evidence.
It's time to do the calculations.
It's time for the Institute for Creation Research and Answers in Genesis to do their own research.
It time to do something other than say, "Oh some scientists at a university in California
created exotic matter to shine light through and while light was in the exotic matter it
slowed down, THEREFORE 6,000 years!
Yea, we win!"
It's time to get real with your evidence and stop manipulating the work of others to manipulate
your followers.
That does not and will not ever get you to a 6,000 year old universe.
Where oh where is your scientific evidence for a 6,000 year old universe or earth?
Where is it?
Attention all young earth creationists, It's time to STOP manipulating science.
It's time to either present your evidence or put a sock in it.