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>>Sounds like you got the false Creo teaching down pat. Now get the to your lab for enlightenent.

See, it always comes down to that here on FR and in Progressive classrooms. I do not agree that evolution/uniformitarianism as it is currently believed is Truth, but I do not disagree with it either. It is an unobservable and unrepeatable theory that is more philosophy than biology. I simply question the method and then get attacked by people who claim to be open but still have a worldview that requires adherence to a certain humanist orthodoxy.

It is interesting that you repeatedly use the word “enlightenment”, a word associated closely with Humanist thought (that leads into Existentialist thought, then Post-Modernist thought, and then Progressive thought).

Like the Deep State Republicans, the philosophies of Post-Modernism are deeply ingrained in our side of the political divide just as the exact same philosophies are ingrained in the other side.

I don’t believe in Young Earth Creationism one bit, but I do like to use it to explore the worldview phenomenon to better understand why our nation as an actual Free Republic is doomed.

Thank you for participating.

Bryanw92: "It is interesting that you repeatedly use the word “enlightenment”, a word associated closely with Humanist thought (that leads into Existentialist thought, then Post-Modernist thought, and then Progressive thought)."

Here's an idea you need to fix firmly in your own mind: we Americans especially are children of the Enlightenment.
Our Founding Fathers were the Enlightenment's finest expression and accomplishment.
Thinkers like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin were among the best of their age.
Our adherence to both the Constitution and Bible (not necessarily in that order) reflect their outlook on life.

Oh, no, some people claim, our Founders were atheists or deists.
Nonsense, they all understood, without exception, the importance of traditional (Judeo) Christian teachings and the impossibility of making their Constitutional Free Republic work without them.

Sure, the Enlightenment Age was followed by Romanticism, Existentialism, modernism, post-modernism, etc-ism, etc-ism, all unfortunate.

But the idea of conservatism is that we anchor our views of these more recent effervescences in traditional understandings of the Bible and our Founders' Enlightenment intentions.

"Enlightenment" is a good word.