Quick YEC Debunks

[vulcanlogician]

The "standard model" of young Earth creationism is so easily decimated. A 6,000 year old cosmos ... dinosaurs coexisting with humans ... Noah's Ark ... It's amazing that anyone still believes in this stuff. Young Earth creationism is a house of cards. Prove any one part of it wrong, and the whole thing comes crashing down.

So, I thought I'd make a thread where we could all share "quick debunks" of YEC theory. These should be no longer than 1-3 paragraphs long. Just something to throw in creationists' faces upon encountering their weak ass arguments. It would benefit us all to be armed with a pocket-full of quick takedowns.

I'll go first: The Andromeda galaxy is 2.5 million light years away from us. That means that when we look at Andromeda through a telescope, we do not see it as it exists today. We see it as it existed 2.5 million years ago. If the universe is only 6,000 years old as you say, this means that when God created the cosmos, he actually stretched the light from Andromeda to Earth. Why? To give anyone with a telescope good reason to doubt the accounts in Genesis? It makes no sense.

You'd make an excellent argument, IF it wasn't based on false equivalence...

Huggy, my argument isn't all that complicated. It doesn't even try to disprove God. All it's actually trying to do is say that there is evidence that the universe is older than 6,000 years. At the end of the post, I questioned why God would do this if he wanted people to believe that the universe is actually as young as portrayed in Genesis.

I thought it was a fair and honest argument. Other people may have thought of it first, but it's something I came up with on my own. I thought it made a good point. And I fail to see the false equivalence. Care to elaborate?