Vaughn Mancha is an Old Earth Creationist who frequently posts on Facebook.
Here are snaps of three of his posts, in which he smears Young Earth Creationists. In them he locates the foundation of Young Earth Creationism in the visions of a New England woman some 160 years ago. In another post, he finds that the work of young earth creationist Henry Morris is also rooted in these same visions.
Mr. Mancha implies that people who think the earth is less than multiple billions of years old are kooks and heretics, or lack the discernment to know this.
In Mr. Mancha’s world, Young Earth Creationists are not trying to interpret the Bible as best they can; instead, they are merely automatons following delusional people.
Young earth creationists take the Bible seriously. If you take the Word of God seriously, you would look to it for clues on how old the earth is. An honest evaluation of the text of scripture might generate a range of possible ages of the earth.
But Old Earth Creationists obediently limit their estimates to a range acceptable to the secular, pagan culture.
They let pagans determine how the Word of God is to be interpreted.
It isn’t surprising that the secular, pagan culture wants to set the delimiters.
But it is mystifying to me that there are professing Christians who are eager to comply with the opinions of people who are devoted to a narrative that excludes the God of the Bible.