Unfortunately, it is the same flaw that most of the so called "creation scientists" have. What they claim is not supported by the observations. IMHO, folks such as AIG and ICR are forced to invent and misrepresent what is really seen to attempt to make a case.
This is the very reason why I am no longer YE. I once was. When I went to the YE source, like the ones you mentioned, I was so shocked by the poor scholarship
The earth is actually about 4.6 billion years old
I am sorry to hear you claim that Creation Science is poor scholarship. I have found just the opposite. It is the evolutionists who try to pull the wool over our eyes. Don't forget evolutionist hoaxes:
'Piltdown Man' was a hoax
For nearly 50 years 'Piltdown Man' who consisted of fragments of a jawbone and pieces of a skull was believed to be a genuine sub-human ancestor. But in 1950 it was shown to be a hoax. Someone had taken the jawbone of an ape and the skull of a modern human, treated them with chemicals, filed the teeth to make them look more human than ape-like and planted them in a gravel pit. It fooled the world's experts!
'Nebraska Man' was a pig!
'Nebraska Man' was the result of someone finding a single tooth in Western Nebraska. One of America's foremost fossil experts, Dr. Henry Fairchild Osborn at Columbia University, along with others, presented it as evidence that man had evolved from apes. A few years later, additional bones were discovered and 'Nebraska Man' turned out to be a pig! Their theory was based on a pig's tooth!
'Neanderthal Man' suffered from arthritis and rickets
About the time of Darwin in 1860, 'Neanderthal Man' was discovered and was declared to be a sub-human ancestor. A famous anatomist Dr. Rudolph Virchow pointed out that the bones were not sub-human but were old people suffering from arthritis and rickets. This was eventually acknowledged by other scientists.
'Ramppithecus' was an orang-utan!
About 60 years ago, part of a fossilized jaw and a few teeth became known as belonging to a creature called 'Ramppithecus'. Apparently these remains proved that this creature was well on the way to becoming human. Recently however, enough of this creature has been found to show that it was in fact, an orang-utan.
More recently a skull cap found in Spain was hailed as the oldest fossil man found in Europe. Later, French experts confirmed that it was the skull cap of a six month old donkey!
In 1973 Dr. Donald Johanson found a fossilized skeleton and called it 'Lucy'. However when they required a knee joint to prove that Lucy walked upright, they used one found more than 200 feet lower in the strata and more than 2 miles away!
What it boils down to is: do we believe what God has said, or do we believe the theories of man? Any man-made theory can be wrong - "For now we see through a glass, darkly" (1 Corinthians 13:12). In science we are groping our way in trying to understand the things that God has made. God has given us enquiring minds and it is right that we make use of them, but we must realise and accept that if our conclusions are contrary to what the Bible clearly says*, then it is our conclusions that are wrong, not the Bible.
*If we twist Scripture to try to make it say what we want it to say - such as is the case with the gap theory, or with the "each 'day' is a long time-period theory", then we are not interpreting Scripture correctly. "God is not the author of confusion" (1 Corinthians 14:33) and Genesis does not need to be 'manipulated' into fitting in with our theories. It is simple text and is meant to be understood exactly as it is written).
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