This is slightly more reasonable but there's still a lot to unpack here. For one, I don't point to what scientists say because they are scientists. I point to experts in a particular field because that's their specialty in said field. It's not because they say it that interests me. It's the results I find interesting. Go stand outside and look up at the stars. Most of that light took millions of years to reach us. You could say God just made the light go faster so that we'd have stuff to look at but again, that implies God is trying to trick us into thinking the world is older than it really is.
You called Potholer54 an idiot, which demonstrates to me that you don't understand how science works. I may not always agree with Hadfield (Potholer54), but I see him as a credible source. All he does is read what the data published in peer reviewed journals say. He doesn't give his opinion. That's how science is supposed to work.
Peter Hadfield is the same guy who called out people on his own side for misrepresenting the science on climate change, such as Leonardo DiCaprio and all the other climate alarmist, even though he defends the science surrounding it, he shows people on both sides misrepresent the data to suit there own agenda. The fact he's an atheist means nothing to me. Yeah, he's made videos debunking things like Noah's Ark, but only the view of Noah's Ark as perpetuated by Young Earthers.
This is what I mean by "They do more harm than good," because these nut-bars conflate their opinion with scripture, and when someone disproves their ideas it reflects on the entire Bible -- despite the obvious fact that the truth could be different from what they imagine it to be. This is the danger of making assumptions about what the Bible means by what it says. These idiots claim the flood laid down the sedimentary layers we find when digging under the ground. That kind of claim is testable. The only way that would be true is if there were many floods separated by vast lengths of time. It would flood, then stop for a few hundred thousand years, the flood again, then stop, then flood again. They make these claims because they don't understand enough to understand the variables involved.
What they don't understand, because they lack even a rudimentary understanding of geology, is their claims can be falsified. One dude claimed the grand canyon was formed in 5 minutes by the flood. This is another stupid claim that is easy to disprove. In order for the flood to cover that much distance in 5 minutes (300 miles), the flood waters would have to be traveling 5 times faster than the speed of sound.
If Noah was on that boat, and he was hit by that kind of force he would have been incarcerated. This is only a problem for Creationists. So somebody pops up and disproves their claims, they aren't disproving the Bible, they are only disproving some morons view of how the flood happened. But what happens for the spectators who realize these people are full of BS? It stumbles them. They then think, "Oh well I guess the Bible must be fake because this scientifically illiterate wacko was proved wrong."
That's why I don't take YECs seriously. Yes, atheists have a field day making fun of these idiots. But it's not even about God or the Bible. It's only about the YECs dopey opinions about the bible that make all Christians look like brain dead troglodytes. I believe God created the universe. I don't care how he did it. I don't care if he used evolution or if he just poofed everything into existence ex nihilo. The Bible doesn't really tell us how. It only tells us that he was involved. It was his will. That's all that matters. The details will eventually be made clear. We will have the answers someday. But if people like Kent Hovind, VenomFangX, and Ken Ham have their way, we'd have far more atheists because nobody would ever be able to take them seriously. They're a joke. In case you can't tell, I don't like "Creationism". There is a story behind why I feel that way, but this post is already too long to get into that. Trust me. It's not you. I just have a long history with these losers.
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