#young-earth

[thevirtualvicar]

Genesis 1:26-27 Demon or ruler! (Creation 1/4) DDP#806

[make-it-gneiss]

Uncomfortable situation? CHECK!

Last week I was a speaker at a recruitment event for our College of Arts and Sciences. I stood with my advisor, waiting for non-existent questions about the geology program here and we just talk until this man approaches us. What do you know, he is a creationist. The strangest part was that he was very nonchalant and nonconfrontational. 

Simply put, that was the most awkward 20 minutes of my life. My advisor is a geomorphologist my trade, hydrogeologist by study. I am an ig. petrologist by study. (I shamefully admit I have never taken a paleo class before nor sed/strat.) We're not the best people to briefly discus these topics with that man, much less bring some of them down to a level he could understand.

Granted, I looked to her the entire time and she took it like a champ. It was a very respectable discussion, despite us being slightly dismissive to some claims about floods, index fossils, and dating - the usual arguments. At least he was not a Young-Earth person. That would not have been a fun situation in which to try to remain polite.

Chrissy's first official candid experience with a creationist didn't go too badly.

[ericmarler]

Young Earth Creationism

The young-earth creationist's accepted age of the earth is around 6,000-10,000 years, as opposed to the accepted scientific value of the universe at around 4.54 billion years old.

When compared to the surface area of the earth:

Furthermore, when compared to the circumference of the world:

  We then see that saying the earth is 10,000 years old is comparable to saying the earth is about the size of hong-kong, and that the circumference is about the same length as a football field.   Brilliant.