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your ignorance is showing, as usual!I don't know of any religious folks who don't accept that the earth is some three billion years old.
Why Young-Earth Creation Matters | Homeschooling Torah
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Young-Earth Creationism Supports the Concept of āTruthā
Is there such a thing as ātruthā? Or is everything relative? Even if truth exists, is it possible for us to know it?
These are the questions our children will have to grapple with. Even if we allow them to āopen their mindsā to many different viewpoints, they will still eventually have to choose one or more that seems to make the most sense to them. What tools will they use to make those choices? All homeschoolers teach these skills to their children, whether they intend to or not.
It is significant that Scripture opens with the words, āIn the beginning God created the heavens and the earthā (Genesis 1:1). These words form the most basic premise of everything else in the Bible. In other words, all other things presented in the Bible will be filtered through the lens of how we interpret the first verse.
If we believe that God ācreatedā the world but we mean it only in a mystical, figurative sense, then we will interpret the rest of Scripture with a mystical, figurative sense as well. Commands and promises become bendable to my circumstances, molding to my own opinion.
Young-Earth Creationism Believes Scripture over āScienceā
Romans 1 says that āwhat may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain.ā The creation of the world, Scripture says, is the tool God uses to teach about His āinvisible qualitiesāhis eternal power and divine nature.ā In our study of the created world, God is āclearly seen, being understood from what has been made.ā
True science is based upon observation of the physical world. In order to believe in evolution, we have to suppress our God-given senses of the physical world. We have to ignore physical evidence and exchange it for a lie.