Quick YEC Debunks

[Catholic_Lady]

Really believe it. I don't want the world to be any particular age. Has no bearing on my life. I'm just going where the evidence takes me. Note that as a Christian, the Bible is evidence to me - the most important evidence.


No. There are plenty of churches (including the largest one) that accept mainstream science on such matters. There's no need to be in a YEC church.


Yes.


No


It isn't particularly important. You don't see me bringing it up. Why is it important to you guys?


No. The Bible can be interpreted other than literally where the context warrants it. I've just never seen a good argument that Gen 1 was intended allegorically.


No parts are easily ignored by me. Some parts don't apply to me, but I reach that conclusion through study. I don't ignore them, and I still read them to learn about God, even though they don't specifically apply to me.


Not indoctrination. I accepted the mainstream science view because I went to public school and was indoctrinated into that.  We went to a typical protestant church sporadically, and I don't recall the church ever addressing origins issues.

Anyone who's interested in understanding, rather than mocking, might want to check out this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Six-Days-John-Ash...F8&qid=&sr=

Nah, I'm good with mocking.  There are a lot theists around who could show you something in a less mockable faith, or if you like I could point you something very becoming as well as stylishly secular.  But if you don't like being mocked try harder.

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That I don't know. I'm just saying that's when I think moral awareness happened - when the brain became advanced enough to sufficiently understand that there exists right and wrong, not necessarily that they knew exactly what specific action was right and what was wrong. Im sure that continued to develop and build as time went on and still does so today.

Catholicism is like a huge tent with room for everyone from the most literal minded to the most allegorically inclined priest, who nonetheless is happy to keep speaking the allegorical in a form amenable to the needs of the literally minded.  Very accommodating that way.

Yeah, as a Catholic so long as you accept the fundamental basics, you are free to take either a literal or allegorical stance to the OT, and some other passages throughout the bible.