I don’t think you’ve got the point that I’m trying to make Adam. Or at least, if you have, you’re wilfully ignoring it. I shall leave it to the reader to draw their own conclusions as to which is the case.
However, a minister who has been adequately educated in theology will understand the point that I’m trying to make. They will be fully aware that they are in a position of trust. They will fully understand that teaching falsehood and misinformation is a breach of that trust. And they will also fully understand that when someone comes to them whose trust has already been breached by having been taught falsehood and misinformation, they won’t gain that trust by repeating that falsehood and misinformation, much less by attempting to browbeat them into accepting it.
Such ministers, however, are usually not YECs. Or at least if they are, then they keep their YECism firmly in the background.
I’m sorry Adam, but when any group promotes scientific falsehood and misinformation as essential doctrine to the extent of denouncing any attempt to bring correction as “heresy,” that group is a hard line group. Period. The fact that other groups exist that make even more ridiculous and easily falsified claims does not make a shred of difference in that respect.