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- initialism Young Earth creationism
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Examples
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In fact it is only today and since the yEC movement started that more who write actually believe in YEC nonsense.
Yet another version of the origins of ID - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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In fact it is only today and since the yEC movement started that more who write actually believe in YEC nonsense.
Yet another version of the origins of ID - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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In fact it is only today and since the yEC movement started that more who write actually believe in YEC nonsense.
Yet another version of the origins of ID - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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I have come out on record as saying the case for YEC is weak, but still worth investigating.
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By accepting "kinds" and "evolution within kinds" what the YEC is claiming is that God originally created these groups and no others have appeared since and that all evolution within kinds is by descent with modification.
19th Century Evangelical Scholars, Old Earth and Evolution 2010
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Strictly speaking every YEC is also an ID proponent since ID makes no claims at all that conflict with YECism.
A Useless Critic 2007
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YEC is considered to fall under the "Big Tent" of ID, and I believe that it has been investigated, and falsified, scientifically.
Dawkins Regards a Supernatural Designer as a Scientific Hypothesis 2007
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YEC is still the most frequently-encountered antievolutionism that K-12 teachers have to cope with, but more and more it is being augmented by "arguments against evolution," ID or other neocreationist positions.
An Historic Tidbit 2007
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YEC is counter to the facts of nature, whereas other religious beliefs (Deism for instance) are compatible with it.
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Strictly speaking every YEC is also an ID proponent since ID makes no claims at all that conflict with YECism.
A Useless Critic 2007
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