Naming the Animals, Young-Earth Creationist Style

According to young earth creationists, Adam had a 24 hour day to name all the animals (Gen. 2:20).

Fun fact 1: scientists estimate approximately 8.7 million animal species currently live on earth; millions more species are extinct.

Fun fact 2: There are 86,400 seconds in a day.

— Tentative Apologist (@RandalRauser) October 11, 2018

Randal Rauser made the point above in a tweet. I’m not sure that there is anything that needs to be added, except that this might be a better approach to emphasizing the absurdity of so-called biblical literalism than focusing on biology. Of course, young-earth creationists can invoke super-fast evolution at this point in the same way that they do to deal with the size restrictions of Noah’s Ark.

But at least when they do so, it will provide another opportunity to point out the irony of how they’ve embraced super-fast evolution in support of their denial of evolution…