If you can spare three hours of your precious time (and beauty sleep), I have a real treat for you. Or 2 hours, 55 minutes and 7 seconds, to be exact.
Erika (alias Gutsick Gibbon) polemicizes against the creationist ministry Answers in Genesis (AiG), led by Ken Ham. Apparently, AiG recently disawoved other young earth creationists that aren´t intransigent enough, dubbing them "Young Earth Evolutionists" or YEEs.
One of Erika´s main points (and I think it´s a fair one) is that AiG *themselves* are guilty of many of the heresies they accuse the YEEs of. Indeed, young earth creationism as a whole is! For instance, the idea that God created Earth and/or the universe with apparent age was once standard orthodoxy in YEC circles, at least if you read the fine print. Other "heresies" seem to be more typical of the AiG themselves, such as the inclusion of "four-legged whales" on the Ark, making me wonder why that has suddenly become verboten in Ken Ham´s circles?
Another good point is that AiG logically also must believe in evolution, indeed, in a kind of hyper-evolution, since the archetypal animals on board the Ark (or swimming in the Deluge waters) would have had to evolve very quickly into today´s species, in just a few thousand years. That´s fast even for micro-evolution, but it does follow from the overall YEC perspective, and indeed has been defended by YECs before. And AiG themselves *must* have this perspective too, yet they attack other creationists for making too large concessions to evolutionary thinking!
A bit niche, but since I was a creationist-watcher about 20 years ago, I link to this latest development for nostalgic reasons...
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