Hi Paul,
Not sure about this;
"The belief that everything was created by God in six 24 hour periods in the last 10000 years (Young Earth Creationism) is possibly the most well-known in our churches, but doesn't necessarily date back terribly far in its current incarnation."
Of course it was invented in the states in the early 20th century.
I mean the bit about it being the most common in out churches.
The pope and the archbishop of canterbury both belong to churches that have no problems accepting the fact of the age of the universe and evolution.
Any facts and figures to back up your claim about YEC?
Regards,
Psi
Yes, sorry. "Our churches" meant churches like ours, misleadingly enough, "ours" being me and the person who raised the question.
However, the yec position is older than I thought when I first wrote the answer. Ussher is 1650's, and there are a catalogue of christian science bods who also subscribed to a young earth position, at least according to the wikipedia article, which is pretty unsympathetic to YEC.
The most interesting question I feel is:
Can an evolutionist believe?
Hi Paul,
Of course the YEC model was pretty comprehensively dissed by Acquinas before Ussher even appeared and Ussher's views had effectively died out until the fundamentalists came along - 1911 I think?
So anyway - why does Genesis have to be literally true for the rest of the book to be true?
Regards,
Psi
PS you have previously said you are an ID believer not YEC, is this still the case?
Hi Jon,
If by evolutionist you mean someone who accepts the foundations of modern biology then try the pope and the archbishop of canterbury for starters.
Why would it be just one or the other?
Regards,
Psi
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