A Creationist Picks A Fight And Loses To A Priest

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11. "Eras" doesn't quite work either because the earth exists before the sun does.

And plants were created on Day/Era 3 but the sun wasn't created until Day/Era 4. Exactly how is that supposed to work? Besides, the whole notion of a creation account being dictated to people by God is completely unscientific and philosophically problematic, to say the least. The Genesis authors were uneducated in science so they wrote stuff based on oral history. Before humans existed there was no oral history. So anything up to the existence of humans is creation myth. Unless the authors were way ahead of their time they would have had no notion of man being related to/derived from animals. As much as I would like to encourage the "moderate" creationists, it just doesn't work scientifically or philosophically. The mistake Creationists make is linking their religious faith to the science of the origins of life in the first place. The whole notion that it is necessary to accept a set of propositional truths in order to be a good person or to find favor with God is flawed. If God is so great, what does he/she (another goofy idea, that God would have gender) care what individual humans believe about the origins of life? Isn't it more important how humans behave - for example if they are good stewards of the earth and refrain from exploiting or killing each other?