Dissecting YEC – Science and Light (Part 4)
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 secular atheism and Darwinian evolution, they have lost all objectivity not only of science but even the Bible.
So while I have proved that Genesis 1-2 is not a modern concept of a 24-hr day. It begs the question, then how long were the days. That is simple. I don’t know. The Bible doesn’t say