Friday, July 7, 2023

Answers in Jenesis

 


"Answers in Jenesis" is a humorously titled YouTube channel featuring Jen Fishburne, an otherwise unknown content-creator based in Texas. 

She deconverted from Christianity two years ago, probably under the influence of Hyper-Preterism, a Christian "heresy" which argues that all Bible prophecies have already been fulfilled (including the Second Advent). 

Rather than becoming a standard atheist, however, Fishburne has become a kind of extreme Velikovskian and neo-catastrophist. There are also some references to Graham Hancock. Not my cup of tea, frankly, but there you go! Her most extreme statement is the claim that the Earth was much smaller in the past, situated inside a relatively small universe. The expansion of the universe happened later, due to some kind of cosmic disaster...

I frankly wonder whether Fishburne has simply secularized certain Biblical notions? For instance, the lady still attacks evolutionary theory from a kind of crypto-creationist viewpoint, but since there is no god, presumably the mechanism behind the origin of species is nevertheless wholly natural (perhaps some kind of Lamarckian macro-mutations). 

I found this channel when looking for info on Preterism, btw. 

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