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I beg your pardon?

I'll agree that YECs think they take the Bible literally. I did when I was a YEC. But YECism is generally very selective about what it actually takes literally. See, for example, the discussion about the shape of the Earth.
 
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I'll agree that YECs think they take the Bible literally. I did when I was a YEC. But YECism is generally very selective about what it actually takes literally. See, for example, the discussion about the shape of the Earth.
What does the shape of the earth have to do with how the earth came into existence?
 
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What does the shape of the earth have to do with how the earth came into existence?
You can base you ideas of both on a literal interpretation of scripture. Creationists are just selective which passages they take literally.
 
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As Assyrian points out, it has to do with taking Scripture literally.
Then please show me the shape of the earth in Genesis 1.

(You guys want to talk YEC, but then you want to discuss everything but creationism.)

Again, please show me the shape of the earth in Genesis 1.
 
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Then please show me the shape of the earth in Genesis 1.

(You guys want to talk YEC, but then you want to discuss everything but creationism.)

Again, please show me the shape of the earth in Genesis 1.

Re: "discussing everything but creationism:" you indicated that YECism was about taking the Bible literally. I have pointed out that it isn't. You have raised the issue of hermeneutics. Don't complain when we go along with it.

Re: "shape of the Earth in Genesis 1:" Why Genesis 1? Isn't the rest of the Bible literal, too?
 
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Re: "discussing everything but creationism:" you indicated that YECism was about taking the Bible literally. I have pointed out that it isn't. You have raised the issue of hermeneutics. Don't complain when we go along with it.

Re: "shape of the Earth in Genesis 1:" Why Genesis 1? Isn't the rest of the Bible literal, too?
Nahh, just the parts that disqualify the evilutionists from being TrueChristians(TM).

Because the Bible was really given to the Church as a means of weeding out the sheep from the goats, y'know? Heaven forbid that we actually, hmm, read it. And learn from it.
 
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Do you guys think YEC is primarily an American thing? I know that Ken Ham is from Austrailia but I'm wondering if that most YECs are American. Or are they the most vocal? I've heard people like N.T. Wright say that in Britain it isn't really that prevalent and I was wondering if that was true of other places as well.

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How 'bout some data:

http://markwadestone.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/20091015evolutionbycountry.jpg

This is the response in each country to the question: "Is evolution true?"

20091015evolutionbycountry.jpg


The United States is next the worst, just above Turkey (where the creationism is not Christian-based, but is Muslim). Australia isn't on there, but I'm pretty sure they'd fall in the middle.

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And you're not?
I'm not a literalist.

And I don't claim as creationists do that it is wrong to interpret Genesis literally because of what we know from science, that you should reject the science because of what your literal interpretation of scripture says, while at the same time, with passages which literally describe a flat earth or geocentrism, you accept the science and insist the passage must be metaphorical.
 
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How 'bout some data:

http://markwadestone.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/20091015evolutionbycountry.jpg

This is the response in each country to the question: "Is evolution true?"

20091015evolutionbycountry.jpg


The United States is next the worst, just above Turkey (where the creationism is not Christian-based, but is Muslim). Australia isn't on there, but I'm pretty sure they'd fall in the middle.

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"New research shows three in 10 Australians believe dinosaurs and man did exist at the same time. The survey, by the Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies, shows a "worrying" lack of basic scientific principles."

Creationists hijack lessons and teach schoolkids man and dinosaurs walked together | News.com.au (about six weeks ago)
 
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I'm not a literalist.

And I don't claim as creationists do that it is wrong to interpret Genesis literally because of what we know from science, that you should reject the science because of what your literal interpretation of scripture says, while at the same time, with passages which literally describe a flat earth or geocentrism, you accept the science and insist the passage must be metaphorical.

You should have said "as some creationists do."
 
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Hmm, I have another question. Do you think a YEC and a TE could be happily married?

Easily - there just needs to be an absence of the attitude common to many YECs (and yes, to be fair some TEs are like this too, but they're far, far rarer) that if you're a TE you're some kind of compromised/fake/apostate Christian.

I have no problem at all with YEC being a common belief in a church, even if I was the only one that thought otherwise, I have no issue with someone disagreeing with me, but when they disparage my faith and my job, and try and dictate how both should be conducted, they cross a line.
 
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Hmm, I have another question. Do you think a YEC and a TE could be happily married?
I'm starting to take the first wee little baby steps in that direction - God willing!

I'll let you know what it's like when we get there. If you do remember.
 
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