re: Young Earth Creationism and Public Schools...

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What the OP is referring to, I'm assuming, is the teaching of intelligent design.

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Intelligent Design and Young Earth Creationism are not the same thing Roger. Shut the frick up, Now.

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What the OP is referring to, I'm assuming, is the teaching of intelligent design.

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intelligent design. There is a creator of the universe who made the universe in such a way that we would come out of it. Pretty much the fine tuning argument for God's existence.

Young Earth. The story of Genesis is literal and happened exactly as the bible said. 6000 years old, Humans and animals created at same time, somehow we got all the species we have in 6000 years etc.

I don't personally hold to either. I personally believe that what science tells us to the best of it's ability how the universe came to be and how we got here is what I think is correct. God still is responsible for it BUT you must understand causality in the thomistic sense. Modern thinkers usually can only think of causal relationships in the horizontal, aka a cause b b cause c etc. But there is also a vertical causality, or primary causality efficient causality etc. I don't understand God as cause A rather I think of God as transcending all causes and is the reason those causes can have existence at all. Read up on Aristotle and cause if you want to understand what I'm talking about.