RE: Young Earth creationism
July 9, 2014 at 5:32 am
(This post was last modified: July 9, 2014 at 5:32 am by Tonus.)
They will use the old "it didn't say birds, it said flying creatures" explanation. Apologists spend so much time papering over one inconsistency after another that they don't stop to look back and realize just how much papering over they need to do to try and keep their belief system together. YECs and other literalists have to work even harder, because they have to explain things that most other Christians long ago gave up and relegated to "analogy" or "metaphor" status.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
