Is There a Young Earth Creationism?

mat: I think we had a really good discussion here. The primary reason to hold a young earth is simply that scripture teaches it and the fathers support it. Augustine points out secular writings, for example, from the egyptians,. that seem to contradict the account in genesis. And while he does poke holes in them, so e uses reason, he primarily a s to scripture itself to make that argument. i also want to point out that i think there's some troubling implications of some of the readings of scripture that jimmy would give.