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