When did you discover YECism?

I live in Canada, and I don't think I have met a Christian that belives the world is millions of years old.

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But There is a God in Heavan.

Oops lol

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"Ach, stick it up yer trakkans!"

I ran into it in 1978 when Duane Gish came to the U of Minnesota campus to have a debate. My roommate was a graduate student in Biology and tipped me off to it. I went and was astounded at the number of church busses that pulled up, all from conservative evangelical churches. The biggest auditorium on the U of M campus was packed.

I thought Gish got clobbered. Of course, I knew the science but the "evolutionist" did disarm most of Gish's arguments. I remember being offended at Gish's misstatement of entropy. Remember, I was a grad student in Biochemistry and Gish has a Ph.D. in that discipline. I remember shouting out at the top of my lungs "Gibbs Free Energy!" at that point in the debate. Gish simply looked puzzled but plowed on. The evolutionist prof smiled.

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"If sound science appears to contradict the Bible, we may be sure that it is our interpretation of the Bible that is at fault." Christian Observer, 1832, pg. 437

"Christians should look on evolution simply as the method by which God works." Rev. James McCosh, theologian and President of Princeton, 1890

I remember 1978, it was a glorious year for me. A really boring Bonfire night led to yours truly.

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MSci MSc ARCS DIC PhD..... yes, I am bragging.

I think this is related to this thread (apologies if other feel its not), but does anyone know if YEC is a uniquely (mainly American) Christian thing? I've often wondered what percentage of Muslims (or other religions) take their creation story literally and likewise ignore the real-world evidence. Anyone here had any experience of this?

G.

Only within the last three years, since I started posting on forums like this and II. Never even heard of a such a thing when I was a Christian.

You remember the night you were concieved?

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"If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; if we begin with doubts, and are patient, we shall end in certainties."
-Marcus Aurelius

I don't remember when I first found out about YEC's. It's like how you don't remember the first time you found out you had grandparents...

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"If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; if we begin with doubts, and are patient, we shall end in certainties."
-Marcus Aurelius

I knew I had a pose somewhere out there.

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I agree. I thought nearly every Christian was YEC. The televangelists, I thought, backed up the thought.

edit- I used "thought" too many times.
edit #2- Obbiquiet, you have a really nice house, dude.

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