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Pat Robertson: Young Earth Creationism is Wrong

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Didn't see anything on religious or science forum, sorry if this was posted.
Pat Robertson seems to have finally fulfilled his second accurate statement on his wheel of stopped clock fortune today (ever?:p)

Odin bless him, he realizes that you shouldn't hide the findings of science from your children, as they just don't contradict the bible, and you're only going to drive your children away. It would be nice if he would address why Christians are making this idea of a young Earth so popular without challenging it as Christians in the modern day, I'm sure he has an opinion on that.

While the findings of science do contradict the bible, at least he's able to contort things otherwise.

 
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wow, good on him. I never thought I'd see the day.

"There's also a female [fossil or "carcass" as he calls it] named 'Susie' or something..." :newlol
 
Wow... I am totally gobsmacked. Bully for Robertson... is this an alternate universe or something? :)

This is going to create a stir is creationist circles, methinks.
 
Ironically, it's probably senility.

Or, as Mattus suggested, an alternate universe.
 
Who would have guessed he would go progressive with old age?
 
Who knew that Pat Robertson would be more sensible about science vs. biblical literalism than Barack Obama?
 
Perhaps I am being too cynical, but I am still curious about his opinion of Noah's Flood.
 
Puppycow said:
Now if only he could convince Marco Rubio.
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Marco Rubio will eventually change his position for the exact same reason Pat Robertson did: popular opinion. As soon as it becomes clear to Rubio that his opinion on this topic will affect one of his upcoming elections his belief will "evolve".
 
Ladewig said:
Perhaps I am being too cynical, but I am still curious about his opinion of Noah's Flood.
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Robertson is still a kook who thinks demons possess and make people depressed along with a mountain of other absurdities. It's not like this makes him a reasonable guy. It's just kind of unexpected.
 
Was Pat Robertson ever a young Earth creationist? He's obviously a creationist, but I'm having trouble locating evidence of him saying that the Earth is only 6K years old. I've found earlier video of him talking about the universe being billions of years old.

He's still crazy.

I'm still glad he's saying that the young earthers are wrong.

But I don't know if this is a change in his viewpoint.

Ward
 
wardenclyffe said:
Was Pat Robertson ever a young Earth creationist? He's obviously a creationist, but I'm having trouble locating evidence of him saying that the Earth is only 6K years old. I've found earlier video of him talking about the universe being billions of years old.

He's still crazy.

I'm still glad he's saying that the young earthers are wrong.

But I don't know if this is a change in his viewpoint.

Ward
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Well if you look at the overall arc of his career, I think it's pretty clear that he's done more stuff to promote creationism than to dispute it:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...sm-earth-is-not-6000-years-old_n_2207275.html

As Raw Story points out, however, Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network "promoted the Creation Museum in a 2007 report and seemed to buy in to the notion that the Earth was thousands -- not billions -- of years old."

Moreover, writes Right Wing Watch, the network also "sells material arguing that the Earth is 6,000 years old and that the Bible says dinosaurs and humans lived together."
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Maybe in the past he just avoided the topic rather than saying anything about it, and didn't do much to try to disabuse YECs of their error.

ETA: If you google pat robertson on evolution, you find him promoting Ray Comfort.

In 2005 he said this:
Robertson: God May Smite Down Town That Voted Out Anti-Evolution School Board

ETA2: one more:

http://mediamatters.org/video/2005/12/19/robertson-claimed-evolutionists-worship-atheism/134479

So maybe he has gone as far as accepting an old earth but still rejects evolution. An old-earth creationist IOW.
 
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wardenclyffe said:
Was Pat Robertson ever a young Earth creationist? He's obviously a creationist, but I'm having trouble locating evidence of him saying that the Earth is only 6K years old. I've found earlier video of him talking about the universe being billions of years old.

He's still crazy.

I'm still glad he's saying that the young earthers are wrong.

But I don't know if this is a change in his viewpoint.

Ward
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I posted the thread just because I was surprised and automatically assumed he was a YEC through confirmation bias, but reasonable bias I'd say. I was shocked to hear him say it in this day and age where most public fundamentalist figures will either embrace YEC or claim "nobody can be sure" or some other dodge like that.

But not only did he not dodge or give vague allusions, he straight up said it was wrong, which is what surprised me so much. I wish our politicians would follow suite.
 
I didn't mean it as a criticism. It's an important announcement. I just don't know if it is a change for him intellectually (and I use the term loosely). I know he does not argue with Comfort or other young Earth creationists and he is (and was at least) certainly an old Earth creationist, himself. I can't tell if his feelings on the subject have "evolved."

Ward
 
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