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Other YEC’ers claim Faraday was a young earth creationists? No kidding. I mean a source that has actual evidence to substantiate it. Faraday lived at a time when Geologists had already begun to question the age of the earth. If he never weighed in on the subject but attended a “literalist church” I am afraid his particular opinion on the subject must remain unknown, and perhaps intentionally upon his part.

When asked about the supposed superiority of Creation Science (unburdened by our mistaken notions of evolution and an old earth and a constant light speed and atomic decay) you provided a source.

Journals of Creation Research establish what is meant and what it takes to be a “Creation Scientist”. You have to explain how the real science is wrong...but if you feed my interpretation of the Bible into the numbers, it all comes out to six thousand years, a worldwide flood, etc, etc.

Faraday never engaged in any of that. He was an experimentalist and believed the evidence of his eyes. He derived physical constants of the universe by measurement and observation, not by reliance upon Biblical interpretation.

==Other YEC’ers claim Faraday was a young earth creationists?

The YEC’ers most certainly claim Faraday as one of their own. But most of what I am running across is coming from secular articles and biographies. For instance, the Philosophy and History of Science Dept. of Kyoto University also states that the core doctrine of Faraday's church consisted of a “rigid and literal” interpretation of the Bible. And while I can't locate a specific Faraday quote for you, according to one of his secular biographers (Geoffrey N. Cantor), Faraday accepted Genesis as the true account of God's creation. And not only that, Faraday used the principles he learned from the Bible to guide his research. For instance, his interpretation of the Bible led him to believe that the universe is tightly ordered by divine providence, thus his work on the economy of nature.

The list goes on and on. Again, I think it's time you faced the cold, hard truth. Faraday was a “rigid” biblical literalist. His understanding of the Bible helped guide his research. And as a biblical literalist, he believed in a literal interpretation of Genesis. You are quite right to hold Faraday's monumental scientific accomplishments in high regard. But let's face it, if he were alive today you would deny his status as a scientist and call him “stupid”...just as you do with respect to modern creation scientists who hold virtually identical beliefs.