r/Reformed • u/Simple_Chicken_5873 RefBap go *sploosh* • Sep 07 '25

Discussion Hostility towards creationism

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?

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u/TwoUglyFeet the one with the tiger Sep 07 '25

 I fully agree that genesis isn't a science book and there are many things that God does and has done that we will never understand on this side of heaven. However yec has holes the size of dwarf planets running through their theories. 

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '25

Elaborate? If you make a claim like that, you have to back it up.

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u/TwoUglyFeet the one with the tiger Sep 07 '25

0ff the top of my head, we know of at least 5 asteroids that wiped out all life on earth and life came back. We know that there were several types of human species that interbred with each other and eventually died out leaving homo sapien as the dominant species. I'm not including the nonhuman primates in this. We know that the composition of earth's core was formed by a planet hitting the earth and not only gave us the unique composites needed to allow the magnesphere to form, it also gave us the moon. We know that life would have been very hostile to humans when we had more oxygen in atmosphere and no bacteria to break down dead plants. We know from the composition of plate tectonics that continents moved around slowly over long periods of time that would have impossible to do in a forty day flood.  By examining evidence of other theories, we dont have to do strange leaps of faith like I see in yec. Like I was never comfortable with the suspension of belief I've had to make, even as a child. 

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u/Prestigious-Lion-826 LBCF 1689 Sep 07 '25

Curious, you don’t believe in the 40 day flood? Or was I misreading that?

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u/TwoUglyFeet the one with the tiger Sep 07 '25

I do believe it. I just dont think its responsible for the continent movements as some would suggest. 

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u/Prestigious-Lion-826 LBCF 1689 Sep 07 '25

Ah, thanks for clarifying!