Is Young Earth creationism a new Idea?

[Bill_II]

@Ashwin_s

YEC is a reaction to this finding and an attempt to correct the science by those who hold that the Bible clearly teaches a recent creation event.

The recent YEC movement started as a reaction against evolution. Since evolution requires long periods of time if you remove them then evolution didn’t happen.

See the thread at YEC's Roots in 7th Day Adventism

A quote from that thread.

@Larry_Bunce

Ellen G. White’s vision of the 6-day creation was published in 1870, a decade after “The Origin of Species,” and a generation after geology had determined that the earth was far more than 6,000 years old.

From what I have read the acceptance of the age of the earth wasn’t a problem until Ellen White entered the picture.