I don't debate young earth creationists for the same way I don't go around smelling dog crap. I already know both are shit.

#creationism #youngEarth #science

Skeptoid #146: How Old Is the Mount St. Helens Lava Dome? by Brian Dunning #mountsthelens #youngearth #creationism #evolution #SkeptoidPodcast #podcast #bot Young Earthers point to an infamous dating error as evidence that the Earth is only as old as the Bible says.
https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4146

Skeptoid #82: What Do Creationists Really Believe? by Brian Dunning #creation #youngearth #creationism #darwin #SkeptoidPodcast #podcast #bot Creationism is not one set of beliefs - it is a battleground of dramatically conflicting world views.
https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4082

Don't preach #YoungEarth #Creationism to me and claim you're a #Christian. You worship the words of man while rejecting the works of your #God.

I'm #pagan, and even I can see your blasphemous - by your own claimed standards - hypocrisy.

You want to believe it? Fine. No-one can or should try to stop you. But know what you're doing: ignoring the *literal creation* in favour of a mere early human view of it. Again, fine if that's your choice. Just own it, and stop with the pious authoritarianism.

Kent E. Hovind (or, to use his full former academic title Kent E. Hovind, inmate #06452-017) (1953–) is a young Earth #creationist, promoter of imminent millennialism, con man, professional liar, and convicted felon.

Hovind promotes Young Earth creationist and #Christian #dominionist views in lectures and videos sold or publicized through his Creation Science Evangelism organization (despite having no legitimate degree).

Hovind created The Hovind "Theory" to explain how the global flood got all the water — namely, a comet did it. Hovind then proceeded to ignore all scientific evidence on dinosaurs gathered this side of 1960. Not satisfied with this record of failure, in 2001, Hovind started Dinosaur Adventure Land, an amusement park in his backyard.

#RationalWiki #kenthovind #youngearth #taxfraud #SovereignCitizen #dinosauradventureland
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Kent_Hovind #mailfraud #DomesticViolence #IndependentBaptist

The evidence against a recent creation is overwhelming. With the possible exception of Flat Earthism, there is no greater affront to #science than Young Earth creationism (YEC).

This article collects a near-exhaustive list of evidences that place a lower limit on the age of the Universe beyond the 6,000 to 10,000 years asserted by most Young Earth creationists (YECs) and the literalist Ussher chronology. All of this evidence supports deep time: the idea, considered credible by scientists since the early 1800s, that the Earth (and the Universe) is millions or billions of years old. Modern science accepts that the Earth is about 4.54 billion years old and the entire universe is around 13.77 billion years old.

#creationism #youngearth #RationalWik #biblicalliteralism
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Evidence_against_a_recent_creation

Raymond "Ray" Comfort, also known as Banana Man is a #Protestant #Christian author, video producer, street preacher, and liar for Jesus. Comfort is a young Earth creationist and opposes the theory of #evolution. His arguments for a young Earth are entirely unfounded in science, demonstrate basic misunderstandings of #evolution and #science in general, & often aren't even based on reality.
#creationism #youngearth #raycomfort #pseudoscience #RationalWiki
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ray_Comfort

#Baraminology (also known by its Intelligent Design technobabble name "discontinuity systematics") is a #pseudoscience that attempts to provide a creationist alternative to animalian #Linnaean taxonomy and cladistics based on a biblically literal young-Earth creationist worldview.

#creationism #youngearth #RationalWiki
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Baraminology

Is there a name for the #LogicalFallacy where someone rejects any scientific finding as being part of a supernatural "test" that the observer is failing?

I had a #YoungEarth coworker years ago who dismissed carbon dating evidence, saying "God put those bones in the ground like that to test our faith. My faith is strong enough that I won't believe it." After someone makes this sort of statement, further discussion seems futile.

I suppose I need to acknowledge that one of the coauthors has gotten into a bit of hot water lately, but I still regard this particular book as one of the more important anti-YEC books out there, written as it is from the perspective of people who themselves were once #YoungEarth #creationists. It's definitely worth your time if you expect to encounter #creationism at all, yourself.

As the books I've shared by @JoschuaKnuppe and Kirk Johnson & #RayTroll nicely bridge the gap between books aimed at older and younger readers, I'll pivot for a moment to boost a couple books I've reviewed aimed more or less exclusively at older audiences. Something I happen to share with Kirk Johnson is a childhood steeped in #YoungEarth #Creationism (YEC), & I'm very appreciative of #GodsWordOrHumanReason, another one @keesey had a hand in.
https://dinodadreviews.com/2020/02/01/gods-word-or-human-reason/

As the books I've shared by @JoschuaKnuppe and Kirk Johnson & #RayTroll nicely bridge the gap between books aimed at older and younger readers, I'll pivot for a moment to boost a couple books I've reviewed aimed more or less exclusively at older audiences. Something I happen to share with Kirk Johnson is a childhood steeped in #YoungEarth #Creationism (YEC), & I'm very appreciative of #GodsWordOrHumanReason, another one @keesey had a hand in.
https://dinodadreviews.com/2020/02/01/gods-word-or-human-reason/