Do YEC ministries employ the same rhetorical tactics as Richard Dawkins?

Actually, BioLogos does seem to be encouraging restraint here. For example, on the thread “Worries about structural dishonesty in YEC scholarship” one of the most vocal contributors in that respect is @Christy Hemphill – one of the BioLogos staff and a moderator on these forums.

For the most part, I would concur. Hanlon’s Razor should be our guiding principle here – never ascribe to malice that which can be better explained by incompetence or misunderstanding – and it is more gracious to assume as far as is reasonable that they are simply getting carried away with themselves. It also gives you the moral high ground (as well as being Romans 12:17-compliant) when you are being accused of being a “faithless so-called Christian” and a “compromiser” for failing to acknowledge that there were dinosaurs on the Ark and that nuclear decay rates were accelerated by a factor of a billion at the time of the Flood.

Having said that, some things are clear-cut examples of dishonesty, and these should be called out for what they are. This is especially the case given that accusations of dishonesty against the scientific community form a large part of the YEC message, and as such, they have an extra responsibility to make sure that their own house is in order first (Matthew 7:5 is the operative Bible verse here).

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