>>42699
True, great point Riboss. BTW, there are hundreds of other systemic issues with their hottake.
BTW, none of the organizations I've linked to are YEC -adherents. I'm not attempting to speak for anyone else here but just myself alone:
I personally consider the YEC claims to be extraordinarily-harmful ones concerning the endeavor of Christian Evangelism.
There is literally no evangelistic value in their positions. At all. While God won't lose any of His own in the end (preaching the Gospel even after death for those who would believe) [1], this has ravaged countless millions from living a full life in Christ, simply through (reasonable, IMO) offense at YEC's adamant (and non-biblical) take on the age of the universe.
B/c
(((reasons))), they have managed to spread this mindvirus far-and-wide in the West today...posturing themselves in the media as the """one-and-only-Christian-worldview""". Thankfully its actually a rather new concept (~150yrs now), and hasn't plagued most of human history. Only subsequent to Darwin's
"On the Origin of Species..." has it come into being (and directly in an attempted-response to it). I love them as fellow Christians, but I strongly-oppose their position on this set of topics. As
@GreerTech implicated before (though on other terms):
"To deny physical evidence is fallacy" (cf.
>>42651 ).
They are attempting to claim that God's second "book" [2] has no authenticity or merit at all compared to biblical scripture (yet spend vast amounts of their considerable resources examining said 2nd book in an attempt to "hogtie" it with their presuppositions, lol). This is actually a
very deep fallacy IMO. It simultaneously impugns both God's handiworks, as well as His moral character...
as if He could contradict Himself in any way (ie, lie or be deceptive). This position is patently impossible, biblically-speaking. (It also rages against simple common sense.)
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>but I don't think evolution is incompatible with Christianity.
Its not
per se. Microevolution of smol organisms (ant-sized or smol'r -- but
especially the microbes) is directly-observable under controlled conditions. And that fact isn't at odds with any biblical precepts, either. But so-called neo-Darwinian "Macroevolution" isn't in fact real at all. God directly-created all advanced life species. He is
also the sole, one-and-only
Originator of all life forms (and indeed the entirety of the universe) [3].
>tl;dr
True, but neither is it necessary.
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