The history of Young Earth Creationism?

Question

how old is it as a religious movement? I heard about 150 years.

Answer 1

Archbishop Usher calculated the 6,000 year age of earth to counter the scientific developments in earth history and evolution ~ 1860s...

Answer 2

In the 1850 creation geologist studied an "old" earth. In the 1920s the term creationism became particularly associated with a Christian fundamentalist movement opposed to the idea of human evolution, and focused more on the 'young' earth

I personally had never heard of such an idea until last year, which I thought it was just absurd. Now that I've done some reading up on it, I don't think it's as absurd, but now I kind of want to go into geology and paleontology so I can decide for myself..

Answer 3

All the world thought God created everything until Evolution came along about 150 years ago. Taking Genesis 1, at face value without doubt which says that God created the universe, the earth, the sun, moon and stars, plants and animals and the first two people within six ordinary days. Being honest, you would have to admit that you could never get the idea of millions of years from reading this passage.

The majority of Christians (including many Christian leaders) in the Western world, however, do not insist that these days of creation were ordinary-length days, and many of them accept and teach, based on outside influence of evolution, that they must have been long periods of time - even millions or billions of years.

God didn't say millions and billions of years God said "the evening and the morning were the first day." And He said this all 6 days of creation.

Because God is infinite in power and wisdom, there's no doubt He could have created the universe and its contents in no time at all, or six seconds, or six minutes, or six hours - after all, with God nothing shall be impossible.(Luke 1:37)

Bible makes it clear that death, bloodshed, disease, thorns, and suffering are a consequence of sin. God gave Adam and Eve and the animals plants to eat. Man was permitted to eat meat only after the flood. After Adam and Eve sinned and God killed the first animal (death) so they could have clothes, death came into the world. The wages of sin is death.

The Bible gives us genealogy to the flood and genealogy after the flood. It is easy to determine the age of the earth and the beginning of Creation.

Earth was created before sun and stars. Sun didn't light the earth God did.
Plants created before the sun. Sun didn't light the earth God did.

It does matter what a Christian believes concerning the days of creation in Genesis 1. Most importantly, all schemes which inserts eons of time into, or before, creation undermine the gospel by putting death, bloodshed, disease, thorns, and suffering before sin and the Fall, as explained in Genesis.

All "long-age" compromises, reject Noah's Flood as global. It is described as a local event because the fossil layers are accepted as evidence for millions of years. A global Flood would have destroyed this record and produced another.

Yet in every society of man a global flood is in their history.

Answer 4

Most people have thought that the earth is young through most of history.

Only in the last 120 or so years have some people begun to think that the earth is old.

Answer 5

pshhhhh... 6000 years old.. lololololol. Lets not even argue evolution vs. creationism... How can anybody actually think the earth is 6000 years old? Its ok.. you don't have to believe every word of the bible... Moral and ethical parables... sounds good to me.. but why do you believe the words of bronze age desert nomads as to how old the earth is? Despite all the empiracle evidence contrary to something as insane as a 6000 year old earth, how can you still believe that?

Answer 6

I "believe" that evolution theory is only around 140 years, but I don't have the exact dates. I'd *assume* that young earth is quite a bit younger than that.

Answer 7

I see the first two creationist answerers cannot even bother to read the question.
What hope is there?

Answer 8

You're correct, its a very recent trend. However to be fair, earlier peoples were not scientifically literate enough to tackle the question.

Answer 9

It began about 6,000 years ago when God created the earth.

Answer 10

The earth is about 6000 years old.

Praise God!