Defining "Old-Earth" creationism

[Swamidass (Peaceful Science)]

@gbrooks9 this is genuinely absurd. This is just a cartoonized version of the OEC position. We dislike it when people do that about us. We should not do the same to others…

@gbrooks9

How does one even debate with someone who is an Old Earther and Special Creationist?

They might agree to the Earth being billions of years old… but they do not use the Bible to arrive at that conclusion?

And yet they think it is irrational to think gene pools could materially change in all those millions of years.

Edit: Summation Added-Old Earther Creationists

1. set aside the figurative words of Genesis to allow for an Earth that is millions of years old, while simultaneously they also

2. set aside science in order to take Genesis literally that Humans are made from clay and that God intentionally used unnecessary genotype and phenotype parallels when he created millions of species … without any of it mentioned in Genesis at all.

You have not represented their position even remotely fairly. I encourage you to do some serious reading about this before saying statements like this. I point you to the BioLogos friends: Reasons to Believe, and Old Earth Ministries.

Creation Science - Old Earth Ministries

Reasons to Believe