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Well arguing about details vs arguing about plain text is indeed two different things. If you ignore plain text to allow for details you have already chosen to walk down the wrong road.

I tell my wife all the time to spend her thoughts on how good things can happen not how bad things can happen. It applys to this issue. If you ignore that God built this all in 6 days, you spend countless hours studying things that sre not trying to find how they could be. Wouldn’t it be far more productive studying how things that are could be?

I as a Bibilical creationist see the pre Cambrian evolutionary theory as a silly filing error. Noah’s event piled up so many tiny fossils of a type in one spot so that they were impossible to ignore’ so we discovered them.

It was also obvious that in nature so many of one type of life form in one spot would have exhausted the local ecology to limit the reproduction rate to make such teeming masses impossible. Kinda obvious that some event gathered them. But we did not discover that. Even when bird fossils were found gathered inside the snail piles.

There is none so blind as those who refuse to see’ and none so find who insist on searching in the wrong place.

A point my wife trys to make for me...

>If you ignore plain text
>If you ignore that God built this all in 6 days

Is it that plain?

Psalm 90:4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

2 Peter 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

1 John 1:5 ...God is light...

According to Einstein’s relativity, all time happens at once for light (photons), literally explaining the first two verses above. It can still hold even if “light” in 1 John is meant as a metaphor to be telling you something about the nature of God.

Does that include the plain text of the Bible when it says in Psalm 95 and Hebrews 4 that the creation "days" are of the old earth variety? (Where the Hebrew word "yom" in Genesis 1 for "day" has three meanings -- one of which is an era of unspecified length.)

Or does that plain text include days 1 through 3 being before the sun and moon were created? Obviously the plain text in Genesis 1 is referring to days as we're not accustomed to thinking (sun rising and falling as the Earth rotates).

I mean no disrespect to fellow Christians who believe in a young earth. I'm just asking young earthers like yourself to quit stating young earth beliefs as though it's a prerequisite to being a Christian.