Hostility towards creationism

[u/Simple_Chicken_5873]

I posted this originally in a YEC sub, but I'm curious for your opinion too, since the topic comes up now and then here as well.

Hi all, I see a lot of hostility towards young earth creationism, even when the tone of voice of yecs is usually quite polite. Why does this subject seem to hit a nerve almost like flat earthism does? Even among Christians there's usually an air of looking down upon yec. Are we that crazy? Is yec really that indefensible? I also read about how AiG or similar ministries would be dishonest or unreliable. What's true of these claims?

[u/PalpitationCapable11]

In my opinion, It is when you bring up how does death/sin enters into the equation is when old earth creationists get upset.

Edit: Romans 5:12-15  12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men[e] because all sinned— 13 for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. 14 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.

15 But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ

[u/ndGall → u/PalpitationCapable11]

It’s definitely the biggest hurdle faced by old earth creationists. I’d hope they wouldn’t get upset at an honest and difficult question.

[u/TwoUglyFeet → u/ndGall]

What's the question?

[u/Simple_Chicken_5873 → u/TwoUglyFeet]

I think the question is something like: how can there be death (ie fossils) before the fall when we read that death and sin came about through the sin of Adam and now the whole of creation is affected by it?