Young Earth Creation—A “Conspiracy Theory” Like the Flat Earth?

Most of the article centers around the recent “Final Experiment,” a trip to Antarctica organized by Pastor Will Duffy involving a group of flat-earthers and a group of globe-earthers to see if the midnight sun (a 24-hour sun) was an actual phenomenon. The globe earth model predicts it, but in the flat-earth model, it can’t exist. Of course, the 24-hour sun appeared in the sky, just as the globe model predicts.

But after the article discusses this trip, Answers in Genesis is mentioned because Pastor Duffy was interviewed before the trip by Dr. Faulkner and Rob Webb. The article states,

If all you knew about Faulkner and “Rocket Rob” were from this video, you might actually be interested in learning more from them. But we’re talking about Answers in Genesis, a young earth creationist organization that teaches the universe is around 6,000 years old, that teaches a literal global flood and says the animals we see today came about from a process of hyper evolution that happened at warp speed after the ark, without any human noticing enough to write about it . . .

In other words, by criticizing flat earthers, they make themselves appear to be scientific. But in reality, their young earth creationism is just as much a conspiracy as the flat earth movement.

(We’ve addressed this absurd claim of “hyper evolution” before).

So even though he backhandedly admits that Dr. Faulkner and Rob know their science when it comes, at least, to the shape of the earth and the science behind how we know that, he dismisses them out of hand as “conspiracy theorists” (even though we never claim that evolution is a conspiracy!). He also ignores that they are both real scientific researchers, who worked for many years in secular institutions doing real science.

Oh, our researcher Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson also gets a mocking mention. But no serious mention of his testable scientific predictions, based on a young earth model, that have been confirmed by observational science! And yet, such are the gold standard of science.

This kind of ridicule and misrepresentation of our beliefs is something we’ve dealt with since the beginning of the ministry. But it is frustrating to see misleading headlines that imply “common ground” with flat-earthers when we’ve written over and over (including a whole book on the topic!) that science confirms a globe earth and nowhere is the idea of a flat earth taught in Scripture. Not only this, the witness of three Christian astronauts we know also confirms the earth is not flat but spherical like the other planets.

Such articles are a reminder to pray for those who refuse to stand on God’s Word and instead trust man’s fallible interpretations.

But such articles are a reminder to pray for those who refuse to stand on God’s Word and instead trust man’s fallible interpretations.

If you’d like to learn more about the results of this “Final Experiment,” our social media team just produced another video with Dr. Faulkner, Rob, and Pastor Duffy discussing the results of the southern trip:

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Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.