Originally Posted by antelope_sniper
Originally Posted by DBT
Young Earth Creationism is no better than Flat Earth Cosmology. That either of these are still being believed to be true doesn't say much for public education. There must be a gap somewhere.


The modern Flat Earth movement is driven by the same forces as YEC, literalist interpretations of The Bible.


I think that when genesis was written, it was meant to be taken literally. That this is how the world is and how it came to be. They had no idea about the true size, scale and scope of the world and the Universe.