Young Earth

موضوع: Young Earth الجمعة يونيو 21, 2013 10:56 am

Young Earth creationism (YEC) is the belief that our planet and universe were created, from nothing, in six days, approximately 6,000 years ago, by the God of the Abrahamic religions. Adherents of young Earth creationism are known as "young Earth creationists", or simply YECs.

Their belief derives from a literal interpretation of the two creation myths in the Biblical book of Genesis. This means young Earth creationists believe the six days described in Genesis were standard 24-hour days and use James Ussher's chronology (or a suitable alternative) to date the Earth's creation to only a few thousand years ago. Consequently they reject all scientific evidence demonstrating the earth is older than this, as well as the various attempts to reconcile the stories in Genesis with science, such as day-age creationism.

A firm belief in the biblical worldwide flood and the story of Noah is also a cornerstone of young Earth creationism. The flood is used by proponents of YEC to explain almost all observations that scientists have interpreted as pointing to a significantly older Earth.

Creationists who believe in an Earth with an age less in conflict with science are called old Earth creationists, which sometimes includes believers of theistic evolution despite acceptance of evolution (albeit minus the methodological naturalism in the case of the guided evolution branch of theistic evolution).

Interestingly enough, the oldest commentary on Genesis, by Philo, which was written even before the birth of Christ holds to an allegorical view of the text. There only one Church father who is known to have held to a view which is even somewhat literal, St. Basel, and there are a plethora who are known to have held to an allegorical interpretation (St. Augustine, St. Ignatius of Antioch, Origen, etc.). Also, in Galatians 4:24 St. Paul says that the story of Abraham is an allegory, and so it is safe to assume that he interpreted much of the rest of the text in the same way.

موضوع: رد: Young Earth الجمعة يونيو 21, 2013 11:01 am

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