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Young vs Old Earth Creationism - The Origins Debate
1. Young Earth Creationism
Young Earth creationism (YEC) is the religious
belief that the Universe, Earth and all life on
Earth were created by direct acts of God
between 5,700 and 10,000 years ago. Christians
are the main believer of this YEC, whowill use a
literal interpretation of the creation narrative in
the Bible’s Book of Genesis and believe that
God created the Earth in six 24-hour days.
Old Earth Creationism
Old Earth creationism (OEC) is an umbrella term
for a number of types of creationism, including
gap creationism, progressive creationism, and
evolutionary creationism. Old Earth creationism
is typically more compatible with mainstream
scientific thought on the issues of physics,
chemistry, geology and the age of the Earth, in
comparison to young Earth creationism. There
are Christians in this camp (including myself)
that think the world was not created in six days,
maybe six days in God terms but a God day is
not equivalent to a human day and such a divine
2. creator is beyond time itself. 1 day could literally
be thousands of years in human terms maybe
even millions. The bible is not taken as a literal
timeline but is seen as a book of faith. That’s the
OEC view
A 2009 poll by Harris Interactive found that 39%
of Americans agreed with the statement that
“God created the universe, the earth, the sun,
moon, stars, plants, animals, and the first two
people within the past 10,000 years”, yet only
18% of the Americans polled agreed with the
statement “The earth is less than 10,000 years
old”??
My Opinion
In my opinion the Young Earth theory, and the
Bible in particular certainly does not support
such a fact. Nowhere does it say in the Bible
that the Earth is either young, neither does it tell
us this is an important factor, neither does it
assert that it is at all relevant in anyway,
therefore, any Christian that supports this theory
is following the ideology of assumptive time-
wasting humans, that are doing more to discredit
the Bible than actually promote its positive
spiritual message. The Bible does however tell
us that a day to God can be thousands of years
to a human and that a day for a human can be a
3. thousand years for God. The Earth is far more
ancient that the 6,000 years theory, it just has to
be……but again that’s just my view I’m an OEC
Christian and not a YEC
This is where the problems start to creep in with
Scientific Theory. You could say it is the Chicken
and Egg scenario. Science is very good at
explaining things that have happened in the past
or about things that happen on a daily basis.
The problem is this, as I say many times,
Science can only provide an answer to a
question which then unfortunately then raises
more questions to explain that answer. Such a
scenario is created with the Big Bang Theory. If
the Big Bang did in fact create the universe and
the world that we live in now……….the question
is………..what created the Big Bang in the first
place. Does Science have an answer for that, if
it does, does that answer create even more
questions that require more answers.
Even if science can explain what actually
happened all those Millions of years ago and
4. can maybe come up with some evidence to
support that fact, one inescapable fact remains,
the people who are coming out with these
theories unfortunately were not their at the time
all those Millions of years ago, the only one was
there, if you believe that, God the Creator
himself. As it is so well put in the Bible in the
Book of Revelations:
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginningand the
ending,saiththe Lord, which is, and which was, and
which is to come, the Almighty.
Revelation1:8