YEC will NEVER be "good" for "science." It will remain outside the science world where it belongs....wouldn't want to invalidate many fields of real science on a religious whim.
The current treatment of young-age creationists in the scientific community and society at large is unfair and unwise.
Oh no!!!! Science ignores YEC nonsense and (sniff)...it's...(sniff) unfaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiir!!!! Call a freakin' wahmbulance!! "Science" should ignore YEC as, being nothing more than a theology, it is incompatible WITH science.
Scientists and philosophers of science, including old-age creationists and naturalists, should respect youngage creationists as legitimate contributors to science.
SOrry, I don't even lump "philosophers of science" in with "scientsists"......and the notion that scientists should respect YECers as "legitimate contributors to science" is laughably ludicrous. Yeah..."wiping many fields of science away" is "contributing"...
Young-age creationists offer to the current origins science establishment a competing rational viewpoint that will augment fruitful scientific investigation through increased accountability for scientists, introduction of original hypotheses and general epistemic improvement.
The current "origins" "science" is based in theory....there is no way a YECer can offer a viable SCIENTIFIC viewpoint to alter the scientific theories of origins science......a misnomer, if you ask me. That's EXACTLY what the science world needs, more YECers involved in peer-review.
It is no secret; young-age creationists (hereafter YACs) have a poor reputation in the scientific community at large.
Ya don't say....but "YACs" is a good one to remember.
It may be worth asking why most scientists criticize young-age creationists, but such is not the goal of this article.
MAYBE....just going out on a limb here.....because YACs believe that which is incompatible with many fields of science, and they pervert what they don't wholly discount to fit their "Man lived with dinosaurs" story.
The goal is rather to state positively why all scientists and philosophers of science.....should see young-age creationism (hereafter YAC) as a good thing for science.
Gee....DO tell...
The basic idea is that YACs offer to the current origins science establishment a competing rational viewpoint that will augment fruitful scientific investigation through increased accountability for scientists, introduction of original hypotheses, and general epistemic improvement.
...and why should scientists accept YAC claims when they know theology and science don't mix.....and stop trying to raise YAC claims to the level of "science", where they do not belong.