Young Earth Creationism Quotes

“You might think that, by now, people would have become accustomed to the idea of natural catastrophes. We live on a planet that is still cooling and which has fissures and faults in its crust; this much is accepted even by those who think that the globe is only six thousand years old, as well as by those who believe that the earth was "designed" to be this way. Even in such a case, it is to be expected that earthquakes will occur and that, if they occur under the seabed, tidal waves will occur also. Yet two sorts of error are still absolutely commonplace. The first of these is the idiotic belief that seismic events are somehow "timed" to express the will of God. Thus, reasoning back from the effect, people will seriously attempt to guess what sin or which profanity led to the verdict of the tectonic plates. The second error, common even among humanists, is to borrow the same fallacy for satirical purposes and to employ it to disprove a benign deity.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“Science Class

Would you invent some irrational explanation for we lost souls that the glaciers aren’t really melting at all, that they are and will remain just as they always have been? Some rationale that claims the whole climate change scenario is really just a satanic plot, concocted by liberal secular humanists to trick the world into thinking that the glaciers have been melting for twice as long as the Bible says the Earth has been around.”
― Diogenes of Mayberry, Manifest Insanity, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Think for Myself

“This matter of how best to interpret the term "day" in Genesis 1 is not one over which evangelical believers should quarrel; the point is, and all evangelical Christians accept this, that Genesis does teach that God is the creator of all which exists, that He effected this creation in six "days," and that He is a personal God embracing His entire creation in His providential care.”
― John Christian Wenger, Introduction to Theology

“There are a number of questions about which there has been much speculation and argument but which Genesis does not answer to the complete satisfaction of human curiosity. One of these is the meaning of the term "day." There are some writers who hold that the entire account in Genesis 1 is so strongly pictorial and poetic that the term "day" cannot be pressed at all. In the judgment of the present writer, however, this view is to be rejected as hardly doing justice to the language of Genesis 1. Other writers believe that the chapter can only be interpreted as meaning six twenty-four-hour days in succession. Indeed, this is a natural way to understand the language, and were it not for the evidence which Christian men of science are now accepting, this would be undoubtedly the common belief of Bible-believing Christians. Nevertheless, in reference to this world there are two sources of truth: the first is those broad metaphysical foundations sketched for us by the Word of God indicating that God is the Creator of all things, that He is the Preserver of His universe, that He is sovereign in all things, and that He is both transcendent and immanent in reference to His creation. The other source of truth is the research and investigation of men of science. This is God's world and He has seen fit to allow created human beings minds which are able to unlock many of the mysteries of His creation.

The Bible helps believing Christians who are working in the field of science to avoid the mistakes and false theories of unbelieving scientists who do not accept the revelation which God has given to men in the Scriptures. In other words, the Bible throws light on the creation. But the opposite is also true: that which is learned by scientists about the creation also helps us to understand, or at least not to misinterpret, the revelation contained in the Scriptures. The evidence from science seems to be that this world is older than was held by Archbishop Ussher (1581-1656), whose chronology was added to the King James Version in 1701. It is not a question as to whether God could have created the universe and performed His activity in reference to this earth in six twenty-four-hour days or in six seconds; the only question is, What did God do?”
― John Christian Wenger, Introduction to Theology