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Originally Posted by Orthodoxy
I'm not sure how you can say that YEC is not even worthy of being considered an "alternate opinion."
Some of the most widely-respected and educated contemporary evangelical teachers are young-earth, six-day creationists including Dr. John MacArthur, Dr. R.C. Sproul, Dr. Albert Mohler, Dr. Ligon Duncan, and the late Dr. D. James Kennedy. (If you want sources, I'll get them for you.)
Also, as I'm sure you know, the vast majority of the church leaders throughout history held the same view. And there are many documented PhD scientists from respected schools around the world who hold to YEC.
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Ortho - from your screen name I assume there is probably a whole lot more that we agree upon than we disagree about.
MacArthur and Sproul (the two living theologians you cite that I'm most familiar with) both embrace and use the "research" of the Institute for Creation Research, Answers in Genesis and the Discovery Institute.
Dr. D. James Kennedy (rest his soul) was simply given over to kookiness at times, particularly in his later years (See his "Gospel in the Stars" and other works of astrology).
All of the Young Earth material that you can cite will all go back to these sources, and many also use the material from Kent Hovind's "ministry." Hovind is currently serving a 15 year federal sentence for fraud. Read their footnotes, references and bibliographies.
Interestingly, Sproul's "conversion" to YEC came about at the same time as his involvement with BIOLA had begun. BIOLA is notorious for promulgating the doctrines of the Unification Church and "Reconstructionalist" Rousas John Rushdoony at the "creation" seminars.
I get all the reports from BIOLA and invitations to those seminars. A friend in LA attended a few. He states that at most 10 or 12 people show up to hear the likes of Sproul, Phil Johnson and others. They conduct a nationwide mailing campaign and can get only 10 or 12 people to attend? About half of those were from the "anti" side of the argument, too. Not even the students at BIOLA seem to be interested.
Yes, YEC is ridiculous, plain and simple. I'm sorry to offend, but it's way past time for the Christians of North America to wake up and stop being ----
Sorry.
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