{"id":52716,"date":"2018-10-12T05:37:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T09:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=52716"},"modified":"2018-10-11T11:44:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T15:44:33","slug":"naming-the-animals-young-earth-creationist-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2018\/10\/naming-the-animals-young-earth-creationist-style.html","title":{"rendered":"Naming the Animals, Young-Earth Creationist Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">According to young earth creationists, Adam had a 24 hour day to name all the animals (Gen. 2:20).<\/p>\n<p>Fun fact 1: scientists estimate approximately 8.7 million animal species currently live on earth; millions more species are extinct.<\/p>\n<p>Fun fact 2: There are 86,400 seconds in a day.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tentative Apologist (@RandalRauser) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandalRauser\/status\/1050348742753173506?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 11, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Randal Rauser made the point above in a tweet. I\u2019m 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\u2019s Ark.<\/p>\n<p>But at least when they do so, it will provide another opportunity to point out the irony of how they\u2019ve embraced super-fast evolution in support of their denial of evolution\u2026<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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