YEC Model Loosing its Steam

[jhwatts]

Its seems people are not as adamant as they once was with the YEC model, granted many are still passionate about it but not it doest seem as popular as it was say, five years ago.

People are seeming more accepting of the OEC model.

Are others seeing the same thing? Please vote yes or no.

 

[JoeP222w]

Popularity (or lack thereof) never defines truth.

 

[Saucy]

I don't think so. Maybe YEC gets less headlines than it did, but plenty of people still believe in it.

 

[jhwatts]

I'm not doubting many still adhere to it, but not as many. I have been in many different circles and it seems to be less the buzz as what it once was.

 

[St_Worm2]

Its seems people are not as adamant as they once was with the YEC model, granted many are still passionate about it but not it doest seem as popular as it was say, five years ago.

People are seeming more accepting of the OEC model.

Are others seeing the same thing? Please vote yes or no.

Hi JH, what are you basing this on? Did someone do a recent study of some sort or another?

Thanks!

--David

 

[jhwatts]

Hi JH, what are you basing this on? Did someone do a recent study of some sort or another?

Thanks!

--David

No. Just curious if this is the case and if others was seeing the same thing.

 

[HereIStand]

OEC seems to have more acceptance in the evangelical academic world. That really shouldn't sway anyone though.

 

[miamited]

Its seems people are not as adamant as they once was with the YEC model, granted many are still passionate about it but not it doest seem as popular as it was say, five years ago.

People are seeming more accepting of the OEC model.

Are others seeing the same thing? Please vote yes or no.

Hi jh,

If we are to believe the Scriptures, then it should be that the 'truth' is believed less and less.

The Scriptures, to me, seem to paint a picture that as time marches inexorably towards the day of God's judgment, there will be less and less true faith in Him. The world will not get more 'believing'. The world we continue to become less 'believing'. Based on that understanding of what the Scriptures seem to say about man's faith as time marches on, I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear that YEC belief is waning. It would merely be a natural progression of how the Scriptures talk about 'a time coming when men will not put up with sound doctrine'. When that day actually comes that men will not put up with sound doctrine, then you can surely expect that there will be little belief in the truth.

I have never been able to find a place in the Scriptures where we are told that faith in God will be stronger and stronger as time marches on.

God bless you,
In Christ, ted

 

[St_Worm2]

No. Just curious if this is the case and if others was seeing the same thing.

Ahh, ok. I really have no idea personally. The Roman Catholic Church is a large body of believers where a change in direction took place back in the 1950's on this subject (this is when they officially adopted an agnostic position on the subject, allowing the faithful to believe whatever position .. YEC or TE .. seemed best to them), but more recently, they appear to have given a nod to the TE position.

Here are the findings of a recent (2017) Gallup poll on the subject if you are interested: In U.S., Belief in Creationist View of Humans at New Low

It seems that YEC is "losing steam" as you suggest, at least it is in the US according to this poll.

Yours and His,
David