Very well.
Whilst I won’t deny the religious influence of the Bible (just as I don’t deny Darwin’s hatred of God due to the death of his daughter influencing his work), not everything conforms to the theories currently accepted by the masses. There are just too many things that can’t (or in some cases, won’t) be explained by it. Finding such anomalies in such a widely-accepted theory makes me question the whole thing. Such anomalies are rarely reported, yet the media always seems to take evolution too seriously.
I believe there was a story a while back that appeared have found the origin of life in ponds like Darwin suggested, then a week later another one talked about how much of a flop that theory was and quickly promoted hydrothermal vents. When I did read those stories, it turned out to be no confirmed proof, just theories that had surfaced. So I clearly can’t trust the scientific media who seems to prematurely celebrate everything.
At the time of becoming a YEC, I was actually in a lapsed state (calling me a theistic evolutionist is too far, I had decided God didn’t exist as long as I didn’t think about Him); deciding to pick and choose my beliefs through whatever seemed convenient for my subjects. Stumbling upon the idea that dinosaurs could be carbon dated or had soft tissue (I’ve always been a fan of dinosaurs, so I was very interested) led me to investigate YEC.
When that eventually brought me back to Christianity, I was confused; because although I was a baptised Catholic, there were so many rumours and conspiracies about the Catholic Church. When I tried to find the ‘Original Church’ instead, I was still brought back to the Catholic Church, but I actually understood my Faith and how to defend it (thanks to this site).
It took four months to bring me back to Christianity, and another two to bring me back to Catholicism. So if I had to thank something for bringing me back, it wasn’t my religion, it was actually dinosaurs
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Believe me, I was certainly questionable about the religious side of it in the beginning. But in the words of William Bragg: “From religion comes a man’s purpose; from science, his power to achieve it. Sometimes people ask if religion and science are not opposed to one another. They are: in the sense that the thumb and fingers of my hands are opposed to one another. It is an opposition by means of which anything can be grasped.”
If the ‘Young Earth’ is what the evidence suggests, then it is young. And if I find that the most supported book in history through sheer archaeological and historical evidence is proven to be right about the age of the Earth too (the evidence suggests 6000-7000 years old, the Protestant Bible which already has flawed theology accepted this 6000 year mistake too; whereas our oldest Biblical text gives an age of around 6650); then my index finger has just found my thumb.
