This is why YEC should just stick to their erroneous interpretation of the Bible and don’t get confused by science. Why do they feel the need to be concordists. At the end of the day if they see something in science that they don’t think agrees with their young earth view, they would automatically reject it anyway. So, I wish YEC would just stay out of science and not exhibit their ignorance. It doesn’t just make them look bad but the rest of us Christians gets lumped in with them and make the job of evangelism more difficult. In this clip, Lisle is trying to explain quantum physics to Hovind who is clueless like his father. Lisle has a Ph.D. in astrophysics but has never work a day as a professional physicist or contributed to the field of physics. He went into full-time young earth apologetics ministry right after he
I tried to give Jason Lisle the benefit of the doubt when he was boasting about this young earth creation prediction for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). But I have to conclude that he is just lying or at the very least he has convinced himself of that lie. I say this based on a YouTube video of him speaking to a church audience and his 2024 article in ARJ. ARJ is just a young earth creationist website sponsored by Answers in Genesis to promote young earth views. About 21 minutes into this video he is once again bragging about his young earth unscientifically based prediction (his words not mine), about what JWST will find. And ridiculing secular scientists with strawman arguments and misrepresentations. I pointed out Lisle’s wildly false prediction regarding JWST’s data in my last post. Emboldened by his propaganda tour to churches for his misrepresentation
I was hoping I didn’t have to do this, but I came across this video and I just couldn’t let it go. I had tried to give Jason Lisle the benefit of the doubt when he was boasting about this young earth creation prediction for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). But I have to conclude that he is just lying or at the very least he has convinced himself of that lie. I say this based on a YouTube video of him speaking to a church audience and his 2024 article in ARJ. ARJ is just a young earth creationist website sponsored by Answers in Genesis to promote young earth views. So, in this video he is once again boasting about this young earth prediction about what JWST will find. And ridiculing secular scientist with strawman arguments and misrepresentations. “I thought I’m going to make some predictions too based
I’ve come to the final installment of this series on Genesis 1-2. In the previous posts I’ve highlighted the YEC bias. I have shown from the Bible how they have distorted the text to support their global flood indoctrination. Then, I shown from the Bible how they have misinterpreted the creation days in Genesis and how YEC embarrass themselves but distorting science to support their errors. Because of their pride and arrogance, they are unable to accept their distortion of the Bible and science earning unbeliever’s ridicule. Finally, I have come to my last critique of the YEC delusion on their addition to the Bible of no death of any kind before the fall of Adam and Eve. In my post Dissecting YEC (Part 2) I’ve compared the difference between the YEC and OEC on Genesis creation days. I want to reference back to that table. YEC argument goes like
Let’s take a break from the YEC delusion, even though I am on the opposite side with the YEC on this too. What else is new. 😂 Genesis 9:25 (ESV) “he said, “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.” The problem with this curse by Noah is that he is cursing someone who did not commit the sin. Whatever Ham did, it was Ham who sinned, Canaan was innocent of any wrongdoing. It does not seem just or fair to curse the son for the sin of the father. Let’s get one thing straight from the onset, what did Ham do that was so bad and it warranted Noah’s curse. He saw his father naked and went and told his brothers. Genesis 9:22 (ESV) “And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside.” And then
In my last post I laid out the case based on the Bible alone why the young earth creationists are wrong, Genesis 1-2 cannot be 24-hr days. I’ve also shown how YEC have elevated themselves and their biases to be the orthodoxy that everyone must be measured by. We can pray for them but I don’t think they will ever change. They are like some of the early Church Fathers who clings to a flat earth because they claim to have the only correct interpretation of the Bible. Lactantius (c. 250–325 CE) is the most direct example of a Church Father explicitly rejecting a spherical Earth and leaning on biblical language to mock the “pagan philosophers” who taught otherwise. He would rely on verse like Psalm 104:5, Isaiah 40:22 as direct evidence the earth is flat. YEC are the Lactantius of our time. YEC are hiding behind their fear of
What is the age of the earth and God’s entire creation? If you have been reading these posts, you would be blind if you don’t see the YEC refrain that it all comes down to reading the Text plainly. The only reason you don’t see Gensis 1 is describing a 24-hr day, is because you are taking external science and forcing it onto the plain reading of the Text. Honestly, I think there is a lot of appeal to this line of argument by the YEC. As Christians we know we have been persecuted throughout history. Even today we are marginalized for our beliefs and ridicule for being anti-science, mocked for believing in miracles. So, when YEC sound the clarion call to rally around the Bible we instinctively answer that call. Unfortunately, some and I emphasize only some of those ridicules are earned by YEC. As I have repeatedly said
Flood Theology Was the flood global or local? As a Christian we need to look at this theologically first and foremost. We then should examine if our understanding reflect reality because God is not the God of confusion. 1 Corinthians 14:33 (NASB95) “for God is not a God of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.” God’s Word is infallible but we are not, especially YEC. So, let’s look at the flood account. Genesis 71 The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. 2 Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, 3 and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds
Let’s make one thing perfectly clear right from the start, unless YEC want to established themselves as the new Catholic church with Ken Ham as their Pope, take everything they say as just their opinions. I say this not to be derisive but as a statement of fact. Almost universally the recent YEC will claim they are the only ones who uphold the truth of the Bible and the sole people who knows what the Bible says especially in Genesis 1-11. They don’t even say they are interpreting Genesis. In their mind what they say is actually what the Bible said. “What’s amusing is that some people think that it’s as if simply stating this obvious truth (that the Hebrew word used for day in Genesis 1 [Yom] can mean something other than a literal day) is some resounding rebuttal to the plain reading of the Genesis text (and all
and dare I say duplicity. Here is a debate between Hugh Ross & Eric Hovind on the Age of the Earth. Here is the article on Eric Hovind’s website on The Hebrew Yom: Taking One Day at a Time. Go ahead and watch that debate but my post here is focused on Hovind’s own article. Day in Context The Hebrew yom occurs 2,282 times outside Genesis 1. It occurs 359 times with a number outside Genesis 1. Some of these occurrences use cardinal numbers (one, two, three, etc.) and some use ordinal numbers (first, second, third, etc.). However, in all 359 cases, the context clearly shows that a 24-hour day is being referenced. Yom occurs 19 times outside Genesis 1, together with either the word “morning” or “evening.” In all 19 cases, a 24-hour day is clearly intended. The words “morning” and “evening” occur together, without “day” 38 times outside