My son and I are both happy with our 6 figure jobs.
Creationism is fundamental for Christians. WE ARE NOT DEISTS! God created and God is involved with His creation. You have to believe that in order to have a healthy Christian worldview. That is different from young earth creationism.
I do subscribe to a relatively young earth, but this belief comes from my belief that old, old earth is a concoction of evolutionists in order to shore up the the huge amounts of time which would be required in order to make evolution viable. I believe that the earth is probably less than a million years old.
I attended a debate at the University of Oklahoma between relatively young earth creationists and evolutionists. One of the debaters holding to evolution was the current head of the geology department at the university. He conceded early in the debate that geology is a different kind of science since it does not deal with repeatable experiments. Instead, geologists build models. He stated that there are old earth models and young earth geologic models. He, personally, subscribed to the old earth models due to his belief in evolution. So he was admitting that if there was no need to shore up evolutionary theory, then a young earth was feasible from a geological viewpoint. He did not state how young this might be. I suspect he was probably thinking a few million years.
As a high school student who was taught evolution, it was easy for me to see that through the 1950's and 60's the earth got much older. The earth "aged" as evolutionists determined that evolutionary processes required much longer than they originally anticipated.
Creationism isn’t fundamental to me. Actually seems kind of narrow minded and pharasiacal. Putting limits on the Almighty.
CC
‘I believe that the earth is probably less than a million years old.’
hmm...well, okay then...