Peter Kirk has suggested<\/a> that we refer to it as \u201cyoung universe creationism heresy.\u201d Or \u201cYUCH\u201d for short.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/02\/YUCH.jpg\")
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The acronym for \u201cyoung-universe creationist kookiness\u201d works even better\u2026<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Young-earth creationism does not merely posit a young Earth, but a young universe. And its view of both the Bible and of nature is heretical. And so Peter Kirk has suggested that we refer to it as \u201cyoung universe creationism heresy.\u201d Or \u201cYUCH\u201d for short. The acronym for \u201cyoung-universe creationist kookiness\u201d works even better\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":21614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[337,4871,14016],"class_list":["post-21576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-young-earth-creationism","tag-acronyms","tag-humor","tag-young-earth-creationism"],"yoast_head":"\n
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