Why I'm a YEC*... * Young Earth Creationist 

I get what you are saying I look at the world around me and I don't see an old world.

Dope.

Friends, I would love to just provide a list of a few modern YEC scientists. The few I have here are scientists at the highest level in their respective fields. All on this list have made progress in either ID or creation science and are devout Christians who take the creation week seriously. Dr. John C Sanford (Genetic Entropy) - Ph.D. in the area of plant breeding and plant genetics from the University of Wisconsin Dr. Michael J Behe (Darwin’s Black Box) - Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania Dr. Kurt P Wise (Faith, Form, and Time) - Ph.D. in paleontology from Harvard University Dr. Russell Humphreys (Starlight and Time) - Ph.D. in physics from Louisiana State University Dr. Paul Garner (The New Creationism) - Ph.D. in geoscience from University College London Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson (Replacing Darwin) - Ph.D. in cell and developmental biology from Harvard Medical School Dr. Jason Lisle (Understanding Genesis) - Ph.D. in astrophysics at the University of Colorado Dr. James M Tour (Addressing Abiogenesis and Common Misconceptions - RU-vid series) - Ph.D. in synthetic organic and organometallic chemistry from Purdue University Dr. Stephen C Meyer (Return Of The God Hypothesis) - Ph.D. in the philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge

Consider if all humans lived their whole respective lives, ever since Adam, bound inside a Star Trek like space ship that is stranded drifting indefinitely far away from any galaxy. Specifically, this would be a ship technologically very much like the 'Enterprise' in the fictional Star Trek 'universe', but with one exception: it would automatically expand in size to accommodate increases in population. In being stranded in such a ship in such a distant part of the cosmos, what would be our resultant conception of all things? Would we have all the conceptions necessary to understand the most metaphysically basic things we have in our real, Earth-based lives? I think there would be a number of severe preclusions to our making any foundationally right sense of anything, either (I) of the Completed Creation from that distant point of view, or (II) of Genesis 1 as an account of origins and Divine Design. The following are six conceptual results of these preclusions. ONE We would be so vastly far from any star that we would think stars are just points of light. Thus, unlike what it is that, in reality, we see of the Sun and Moon from Earth, our lives inside this ship would show us no apparently large celestial bodies. At best, we could see only the kinds of things that terrestrial humans see of the Milky Way galaxy without telescopes. Therefore, viewing the cosmos from that ship, far from any galaxy, there would be no near bright body to uniquely serve our needs either for visible light or for energy. And we could never achieve an everyday perception of a deep connection between light and heat. This is because the lighting fixtures in this ship would give off little or no warmth; And any actual local points within the ship that produce all our ambient heat would give off none of the kind of light by which we humans see. TWO Worse, our best everyday sense regarding water would be that it is a liquid nutrient, and that it has great potential for thermal storage, and thus, for some kinds of thermal exchange. It would never suggest to us a way of life that is unbound by this ship. THREE Still worse, the ship's food synthesizers would rob us of any sense of just about everything worth knowing about God and Creation. Likewise would the ship's air filtration and air pressure systems rob us of any knowledge of God. And our lack of a blue sky in 'daylight', on a planet that has trees, would make us foolish idiots as to the Divine origins of anything worth knowing. 'What is a “tree”, momma?', our children would have to ask, assuming we even know such a word ourselves, or its referent. 'What is “day” and “night”, momma?' 'What is the “sea”, momma?' These words, and their referents, would be esoteric, at best. FOUR Even worse, our metaphysics would obtain due to our sheer cost in time, labor, expertise, and technology in maintaining this ship, would be warped in favor of a deepest servitude to the concerns of mere survival. For, without our toil in maintaining its functions that keep us alive, we all surely would die when the ship fails. Thus our conceptions of the Creatorhood of God, and of His Ordinary Providence, would be obscenely lacking. Our very conception of human dignity would be horribly bound to that of the individuals' earning a place on the ship. If a given individual, of his own liberty or need, simply lived a day without working, that individual easily could be committing injustice against both himself and all his shipmates. Only by special prior permission from them all could he ever cease toiling for even one day. Therefore, the very idea of a regular day of rest would be obscure to us; and that of a yearly multiple day holiday would be completely invisible to us. For we have no natural day, and no natural year, living in that ship. FIVE Imagine, in living all our lives inside this space ship, we somehow came to be well informed, merely by theory and record, that a planet based, water based means of life would leave us free from the costs of maintaining this ship. Imagine we even came into possession of Genesis 1. Would we think that such a hope was realistic? Or, instead, would we condemn even Genesis 1 as some kind of wicked lie? How could we even understand most of what Genesis 1 says? We, in fact, would see Genesis 1 as the most abominable thing possible. We would say, 'If God wanted us to live on a planet, He would have created us on a planet. But this “Genesis 1” thing makes almost no natural sense, so it cannot be from God. It seems to say that God created the physics, here in vs. 1-3. So this we find self evident in it. Nevertheless, is an “animal”? So this is clearly a pagan account of origins, like an absurd kind of Fairy Tale! At best it is an involved code that no one can be sure to correctly interpret. So we must get rid of any copy of this “Genesis 1”! It is an absurd and false hope! It has been contrived by charlatans, or by those of unsound mind!' SIX Worst of all, we would be inclined to the 'logic' of the science fictional Vulcans regarding marriage: that marriage is some kind of collectivist loyalty to 'the survival of the species.' Thus, human social virtue would, for us, be mere fantasy. This is because our main set of concerns would be that of the values of (1) toil, and (2) the human power to make and contrive things to help us maintain the ship. We might have an open ended supply of raw matter that drifts through extragalactic space, as random clouds of it may continually be propelled out of host galaxies. But we would have no natural knowledge of any of the main things of which Genesis 1 is about. So this Stranded Space Ship hypothesis shows that our physical and metaphysical cosmological virtue depends on our native relation to the Ecological Earth. This space ship scenario, if it were reality, would be cosmologically misleading to us, both directly and in regard to Genesis 1. This scenario might be described as the ultimate 'Space Ship Cosmology'. It would cause us to have a bankrupt philosophy of cosmology, anthropology, and theology.

Let me guess, you are not a biologist nor a geologist and you certainly didn't go to college

This is your brain on religion. Queue the frying eggs. Complete nonsense with zero science. Sad.