Why are there still Young-Earth creationists in the world?

[RedJamaX]

I think it does. The 6 days could be in the perspective of time in God's timeline of light.

I think the biggest problem with apologetic reasoning like this is that you are forgetting a very important thing about how we came to understand that the world really is 4.5 billion years old...

The plethora of scientists who made each little step in the process toward discovering the age of the earth... and developing dating methods... studying chemistry and physics....

You see... All of this work was not done by ONE scientist... or even a small group... It was not a conspiracy that began 400 years ago with a goal to disprove anything the bible said... In fact, most of the scientists that added just one piece of the puzzle were theists themselves... Over time, more and more discoveries were made about our natural world... one step at a time... usually, each step taken by a different scientist, in a different part of the world, from a different cultural background, AND studying a different discipline (physics, chemistry, geology).. but all of their work, collaborated together through HUNDREDS of years of research, all points to the universe being more than 12 billion years old, and the earth being about 4.75 billion years old...

However, theistic apologists DO in fact have a goal of "looking" for anything at all that will help them to make a claim that the bible is a true historical reference... In their search, when they find anything at all that would seemingly support their view... that is then compartmentalized... in other words, protected... protected against all of the knowledge we already know for certain that would prevent their idea from being plausible.

 

[ruffen]

I think it does. The 6 days could be in the perspective of time in God's timeline of light.

There is no X you can multiply those days with to make it fit reality, as the story tells us that God created water and land and vegetation on the third day, and then the Sun and the Moon on the fourth.

The sequence of things is wrong, not just the timeline.

So if a day is actually x million years, how would vegetation survive with no Sun and Moon for that amount of time? And if we're talking literal days here, then there are plenty of problems also. It has for example taken billions of years for the Moon and other solar system bodies to receive the amount of craters that they do. Same for Earth, but our atmosphere and geological processes have erased most of those ancient craters. But the story in Genesis doesn't fit no matter how hard you try.