I’ll be the first to admit I’m not steeped in the physical or life sciences, or science in general for that matter, but I do enjoy learning what I’m capable of through good discussion.
Having said that, it seems to me that opponent “default responses” (I’m sure there are more) concerning Creation vs. Evolution are centered on two basic premises:
a) If you are a Creationist you are automatically thought to be a YEC, you believe the Bible is 100% accurate and take everything in it literally, you are anti-science, and you are against any form of evolutionary process because you think it takes God out of the picture.
b) If you are an Evolutionist you of course believe in a very old earth based on our timescale, you think the Bible is irrelevant (even inaccurate), science trumps everything (whether you want to admit it or not, similar to a religion in that you have faith in it whether it’s assumptions are proven or not), you are against any form of Creation because it puts God in the picture above science.
In other words, whichever camp you’re in this most likely is the perception of you from the other side. So, if you like, whatever camp you are in, pick any listed “default assumption” that you think does not accurately reflect your view and elaborate on it.
"a) If you are a Creationist you are automatically thought to be a YEC,"
Yes, that's what they always try to argue. Yet I have no problems with an old earth or young earth. It can be both young and old simultaneously. Since God stretched out the heavens, decay rates would have occurred faster in the past, making the earth old radiometrically, but not in counting actual years.
"you believe the Bible is 100% accurate and take everything in it literally,"
It is 100% accurate if you happen to speak ancient Hebrew and understand it as they did, which no one does, so of course translations are subject to opinions......
"you are anti-science,"
It depends if we are discussing "science" or "Fairie Dust"..... I am 100% for science and 100% against Fairie Dust.....
Fairie Dust -
Fabricated
Ad-hoc
Inventions
Repeatedly
Invoked in
Effort to
Defend
Untenable
Scientific
Theory.
"and you are against any form of evolutionary process because you think it takes God out of the picture."
No, I am against it because nothing evolves into separate species unless you incorrectly classify things. We in fact see tremendous variation "within" the species - think dogs, but we all understand they are one species.
Granted, if you found only bones of them (most partial or pieces of a jaw bone and small section of skull) and had never seen them in real life, I understand you might get confused and classify them as separate species and believe incorrectly they evolved into different species.
An understandable mistake, but a mistake nonetheless......
