He is a young earth creationist--believes in the literal six day story.No it isn't. He doesn't deny evolution. He believes in creation. You can believe in both.He denies evolution, that's anti-science.
Only an Old Earth creationist can rationalize evolution. A young earth creationist opposes it because it goes against the literal description in the bible, i.e. it calls the veracity of the bible int question from their(YEC) standpoint.
No he believes in the 6 day creation, not that the earth is 6,000 years old. There is a difference there.
Ben Carson: āI Do Believe in the Six-Day Creationā of the World
āYou go back to the very first chapter in the Bible -- and Iām not a hard and fast person who says the Earth is only 6,000 years old -- but I do believe in the six-day creation,ā he said.
Actually, the 6,000 year calculation is derived from the 6 day myth. It is calculate along the genealogy of Adam and his descendent.
You do remember Adam, the first man created during the six days? The age of the Earth follows from the six day myth. They are not separate issues for a literalist, which, according to the article, Ben Carson claims to be.
Either Ben Carson has yet to look at the full claims that follow the YEC position, or he does not understand how tenuous his position really is hen he tries to mix YEC with OEC.
Just because you think that it's a myth does not mean that it is true and yes the age of the Earth can be separate from 6 day creation, each day being 1,000 years.
The Earth was here first long before life was created.
1)The YEC'ers are not claiming the Earth was created in 6 thousand years. 6 24 hour periods. The story is claimed to be literal.. Not allegory.
2) the 6,000 years is the time period from modern times to Adam(others argue 10,000) which is preposterous because there are records of civilizations older than that.
Understand the YEC argument. The minute you begin to use allegory, you end up claiming the Bible is fictional, not the true unabridged word of God. Either what is stated is literal, or you are playing with a set of fairy tales.
You are trying to claim Ben Carson is an OEC, but he clearly tells us that he is not. He is a strict literalist.