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Re:YouTube deleted an electronics repair channel [video] by ikeboy on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @02:05PM (#23762157)
Claims about the Earth being only several thousand years old have been proven false.
Re:YouTube deleted an electronics repair channel [video] by dane-pgp on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @02:48PM (#23762658)
What about claims of the Earth being only five minutes old?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphalos_hypothesis#Five-minut...

Re:YouTube deleted an electronics repair channel [video] by Alupis on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @03:18PM (#23762968)
One of the common "excuses" for earth's timeline in religion is the notion of time. What is time, and is it measured the same from all beings and perspectives?

We understand time in relation to Earth. If a being is not from Earth, or has some other non-human perspective, the notion of time can get very tricky to reconcile.

Re:YouTube deleted an electronics repair channel [video] by Cyph0n on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @02:38PM (#23762535)
Of course.
Re:YouTube deleted an electronics repair channel [video] by RonanTheGrey on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @02:58PM (#23762780)
Except the Bible never claims such a thing. It's been claimed by some religious figures over the last 1000 years and never been accepted as canon by any major Christian church (except maybe some minor sects I've never heard of but then those aren't "major", any belief system has fringes).
Re:YouTube deleted an electronics repair channel [video] by joubert on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @01:57AM (#23767279)
I’m sorry, but Your claim is revisionist.

A young earth belief was the norm before modern evidence to the contrary:

“The chronology dating the creation to 4004 BC became the most accepted and popular, mainly because this specific date was printed in the King James Bible.[19] The youngest ever recorded date of creation within the historic Jewish or Christian traditions is 3616 BC, by Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller in the 17th century,[20] while the oldest proposed date was 6984 BC by Alfonso X of Castile.[21] However, some contemporary or more recent proponents of Young Earth Creationism have taken this figure back further by several thousands of years by proposing significant gaps in the genealogies in chapters 5 and 11 of the Book of Genesis. Harold Camping, for example, dated the creation to 11,013 BC, while Christian Charles Josias Bunsen in the 19th century dated the creation to 20,000 BC.[22]

Several early Jews also followed an allegorical interpretation of Genesis, including most notably Philo (On the Creation, III.13).[23]

The Protestant reformation hermeneutic inclined some of the Reformers, including John Calvin[24][25] and Martin Luther,[26] and later Protestants toward a literal reading of the Bible as translated, believing in an ordinary day, and maintaining this younger-Earth view.[27]

An Earth that was thousands of years old remained the dominant view during the Early Modern Period (1500–1800)”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Earth_creationism

Re:YouTube deleted an electronics repair channel [video] by s1artibartfast on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @03:40PM (#23763167)
I would argue this is more than a fringe belief, as 38% of Americans think "God created humans in present form within last 10,000 years". [1]

That said, do you think that religions who preach this view should be banned from youtube?

https://news.gallup.com/poll/210956/belief-creationist-view-...

Re:YouTube deleted an electronics repair channel [video] by RonanTheGrey on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @01:08AM (#23767054)
The churches for some reason I don't understand, do nothing to dissuade that belief even though no major church teaches it (nor ever has). Same as some people think the earth is flat right?

And no, I don't think anyone should be banned unless they break the law.

Re:YouTube deleted an electronics repair channel [video] by epsteinisntdead on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @02:46PM (#23772991)
A single shred of doubt has a lot of power. As a comment above mentioned, ~38% of Christians believe in a young Earth. They are more than likely the ones who believe in the so-called "infallibility of Scripture". The percentage of the ~38% that might consider evidence brought to them by an authority they respect may also consider the fallibility of other parts of the Bible that those authorities endorse actively in comparison. That's my best guess at why church leaders don't ever talk about myths perpetuated by the congregation.
Re:YouTube deleted an electronics repair channel [video] by RonanTheGrey on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @03:48PM (#23773542)
Damn that's a good point. I had forgotten about that "infallibility of scripture" belief. I think it's misguided and I generally avoid engaging deeply with anyone who holds to it, because to me any meaningful conversation is nuanced. That position is markedly not nuanced..
Re:YouTube deleted an electronics repair channel [video] by amanaplanacanal on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @07:59PM (#23765644)
The Bible does give genealogies of Jesus that are only a few generations long from the very first man to the time of the Roman Empire. Logically speaking then either the age of the earth is very short or some people in the last lived thousands of years.