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young earth creationism

Friend of Science, Friend of Faith: A Review

April 5, 2020 by Randal

Gregg Davidson, Friend of Science, Friend of Faith: Listening to God in His Works and Word. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Academic, 2019. The year was 1988 when I brought my dog-eared copy of Paul Ackerman’s It’s a Young World After All to my high school science teacher: “Mr. Vogt, you need to read this! It will prove […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: evolution, Gregg Davidson, intelligent design, review, science, young earth creationism

Would it be deceptive if God created a young world with apparent age?

March 5, 2020 by Randal

The nineteenth-century naturalist and conservative Christian Philip Gosse infamously attempted to reconcile the apparent great age of the earth with his reading of Genesis 1 by proposing that God created the universe with apparent age. For example, God created the universe with “annual” layers of arctic ice extending back hundreds of thousands of years and […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apparent age, Philip Gosse, young earth creationism

How to Respond to Ken Ham in About a Minute

December 10, 2019 by Randal

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: hermeneutics, Ken Ham, young earth creationism

What’s Wrong with Young Earth Creationism?

October 22, 2019 by Randal

A few weeks I appeared on the Skeptics and Seekers Podcast to debate young earth creationism. In preparation for the debate, I was asked to provide a written statement in response to a statement by co-host David Johnson. I have decided to repost my statement here. I thank David for the invitation to discuss young […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, fundamentalism, hermeneutics, science, young earth creationism

Are young earth creationists the most faithful Bible readers?

October 12, 2019 by Randal

This is the question I debated with David Johnson of the Skeptics and Seekers Podcast. Johnson, an atheist, argued that young-earth creationists are most faithful to the biblical text. I argued quite to the contrary. Which of us is correct? You can find out by reading our two articles and listening to the podcast. It […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: debate, fundamentalism, hermeneutics, podcast, young earth creationism

Advice for Young-Earth Creationists

September 22, 2019 by Randal

In light of Ken’s Ham-fisted performance on “Unbelievable,” here are a few tips for young-earth creationists: Your literal interpretation of Genesis 1 is — wait for it — an interpretation. Your literal interpretation is one of many interpretations in church history. The Gospel does not depend — AT ALL — on your literal interpretation of […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: fundamentalism, young earth creationism

On Ham-Fisted Young Earth Creationism

September 21, 2019 by Randal

Today, I started listening to a new debate on Unbelievable between young-earth creationist Ken Ham and old-earth creationist Jeff Zweerink. Before listening, I tweeted that I was not sure it was still worthwhile to debate the young-earth creationist position. I should have qualified that a bit: if you are going to debate young-earth creationism, at least […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: fundamentalism, indoctrination, Ken Ham, Unbelievable, young earth creationism

Flat Earth, Young Earth?

August 6, 2019 by Randal

In June, 2019, Answers in Genesis published an article on the irrational machinations of flat-earthers. A critic of young-earth creationism named Jay Johnson copied the article and did a global find/replace on the following word pairs: flat/young, shape/age, “a sphere”/old, “a globe”/old, and astronomy/geology. This produced an article which suddenly hits rather too-close-to-home for many […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: flat-earth, science, theology, young earth creationism

Young earth creationism destroys the faith of young people. Don’t let it.

July 25, 2019 by Randal

It’s that time of year when students gear up for back to school and a new crop of high school grads prepare to ship off to university. It’s also the time when many of those first-year students from conservative Christian backgrounds will find their faith being shaken through the first semesters of university. In some […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: fundamentalism, science, young earth creationism

If you reject evolution, should you accept a flat earth?

August 12, 2018 by Randal

Yesterday, I posted the following tweet: “I’ll agree that ‘evolution is only a theory’ if you’ll agree that it is the only theory which offers a viable account of biological diversity.” The tweet received the following response from (what I assume was) a young earth creationist: “Whether the earth is flat or not makes no […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: earth science, flat-earth, hermeneutics, science, theology, young earth creationism

Natural Evil and Young Earth Creationism

December 1, 2017 by Randal

In this short discussion (short being a relative term: it’s under ten minutes) I explain why young earth creationists have a problem of natural evil that they need to explain. Music Credit: Apero Hour Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: creationism, evolution, natural evil, problem of evil, theodicy, young earth creationism

Reflections on Astrophysics and Young Earth Creationism

November 27, 2017 by Randal

Last week astrophysicist Aksel Hallin spoke at Taylor Seminary. Dr. Hallin is the Professor and Canada Research Chair for Astroparticle Physics at the University of Alberta. In this audio, I offer my layperson summary of Professor Hallin’s talk as well as some concluding reflections.

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Aksel Hallin, astrophysics, science, young earth creationism

Which Conversations Will You Sponsor?

October 17, 2017 by Randal

In my previous article, “If you don’t debate young earth creationists, are you stifling the debate?” I argued for the general policy of not debating with young earth creationists or giving them a platform. One of my readers, Mark, expressed some reluctance with this policy. The concern was free speech. He wrote: “I am a pretty […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: debate, dialogue, free speech, young earth creationism

If you don’t debate young earth creationists, are you stifling the debate?

October 17, 2017 by Randal

The other day I listened to a young earth creationist debate on “Unbelievable”. I was not impressed by the representative of young earth creationism. Not only did he challenge his Christian interlocutor by suggesting he had a sinful reading of Genesis, but he engaged in an old young earth creationist tactic called the “Gish Gallop” […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: young earth creationism

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