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A post on the blog Internet Monk<\/a>\u00a0recently explored\u00a0the idea of a different sort of \u201ccreation museum,\u201d one that accurately depicts the natural world (unlike the Creation Museum in Kentucky), and takes its inspiration more from the end of Job than the beginning of Genesis. The ending of Job depicts God as pointing to creation, not as a challenge to get the details right, much less\u00a0a command to reject\u00a0what others think about its\u00a0age, but as an experience that should instill awe and humility.\u00a0Young-earth creationists seem not to have understood that message.<\/p>\n

I was asked to chime in on a private Facebook discussion about creation, and thought I would share what I wrote here too:<\/p>\n

Christians agree that the Bible teaches CREATION. That is not the issue. The question is whether the Bible teaches the details of the nature of the cosmos. It doesn\u2019t mention molecules and atoms, nor does it mention galaxies or even that stars are suns, hydrogen (also not mentioned) undergoing a fusion reaction (also not mentioned) rather than celestial beings. To insist that the Bible must provide us the age of the Earth and accurate biological information, when it doesn\u2019t mention genes, and depicts a dome over the Earth, is to insist that the Bible is something that it is not. And so the key problem is that the people who are claiming to be the most faithful to the Bible with the loudest voices in our time \u2013 folks like young-earth creationists \u2013 are in fact the ones who are being the LEAST faithful to what the Bible actually says. They are pretending the Bible is something it shows itself clearly not to be, and in order to uphold that false claim, they then have to pretend that the Bible says things it does not, and does not say things that it does. And so personally, I think that the kind of dishonesty that is necessary to maintain young-earth creationism is inherently incompatible with being a Christian.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My friend Mike Beidler has a\u00a0post on the BioLogos website<\/a>. Here\u2019s an excerpt:<\/p>\n

\"MIke<\/p>\n

Paul Wallace has come to realize<\/a> that young-earth creationism isn\u2019t about science, it is about gay marriage.<\/p>\n

Of related interest, Ian Paul\u00a0interacts with a post of mine<\/a> on what to do when the Bible is wrong, and Rob Grayson discusses<\/a> the phrase \u201cthe Bible clearly says.\u201d<\/p>\n

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