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I've been listening to Viced Rhino and Paulogia on Youtube lately as housework noise -- not because I particularly care about Christian apologetics, they're just nice men with nice voices -- and I think the most damning thing about YEC is that it can't even figure out some obvious most basic world-building solutions to the persistent problems people keep pointing out in their maths to do some extra maths with to develop new arguments that would be equally wrong.

Look me in the eye and tell me that the biomass problem and the heat problem couldn't be easily countered by arguing that the pre-Flood earth was much bigger, and the planet shrank and ejected the excess material to form the Oort cloud.

Like, only the fact that I'm lazy and I don't think YECs are so stupid as to fall for an obvious honeypot is stopping me from trying to pitch this at some YEC community and see if we can give these poor hard-working science-talkers some new science to talk about. Let's get into the real wacky thermodynamic maths.

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I can't honestly describe how irritating it is to me that my main objection to any sort of Christian Creationism is just that the stories are bad

like they're just bad

I am better at worldbuilding than this! I can provably produce better answers, more compelling ones, ones that actually tie into the ~~scant few~~ non-abhorrent morals the Christian Bible has! I can't even get to "under what circumstances would I find this compelling" because I get so hung up on the "why isn't this better-written, you've had two thousand years to apply some basic fucking structural editing techniques and literary analysis to your own myths"

How does a religion this big have an origin myth that is this unfuckable?