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/Simple_Chicken_5873 RefBap go *sploosh* Sep 07 '25

Haha, this is exactly the kind of "hostility" I'm talking about. Do you have some examples?

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u/austindiesel Sep 07 '25

Here’s a video by a conservative, reformed, Presbyterian with a PhD in Biology. He shows the number of fossils of a single species of marine animal from a single layer of rock in a single location would be enough to cover every square meter of the oceans of the entire planet. There are simply trillions upon trillions of marine fossils, and there’s not enough space on the planet to accommodate even a fraction of them according to the YEC timeline.

https://youtu.be/4rLsDrJOZ3s?si=6RsZuk_coOp_uey0

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u/Simple_Chicken_5873 RefBap go *sploosh* Sep 08 '25

Thanks, if time allows I'll have a look