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I previously discussed an example of how Young Earth Creationists often discard scientific evidence, due to their preconceived notions regarding a young earth.  However, their rejection of scientific discovery is not a rejection of the scientific method per se.  Or at least they do not mean it to be.  After all, Christians who argue theology are quite familiar with the idea of making arguments, supporting them with evidence, and revisiting their arguments when new evidence arises.  In fact, they do this all the time when it comes to eschatology (end time prophecy).  Yet, they seem to have blinders on when it comes to the scientific pursuit of understanding the earth’s past. 

I would respect a YEC Christian who argues for his views in the following manner: …

A few years ago, I spent some time on a website that debates Christianity.  It’s a great website, run by a Christian, for debating with atheists the logic behind believing in God.  I say it’s a great site, even though such debates can be harmful to a person’s walk with God, or at least harmful to mine.  The reason it is harmful is because God has gone to all this trouble to win your soul, and then you expose yourself to Satan’s arguments to persuade you otherwise.  Exposing yourself to Satan is never good, and while a single debate might not scathe you, continuous exposure will, and you might not even detect it, until one day you talk to God and cannot tell if He’s really …

I was reading Isaiah 63, where God describes His willingness to welcome back a rebellious Israel, and then describes Israel’s self-righteous position as they continue in their sin.  God is then quoted as follows:
Behold, it is written before me:
  “I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
I will indeed repay into their bosom
  both your iniquities and your fathers’ iniquities together,
says the LORD;
because they made offerings on the mountains
  and insulted me on the hills,
I will measure into their bosom
  payment for their former deeds.”
It makes me think about how we don’t really “get” God’s nature.  We’re confused by it, and so decide that it isn’t us that are confused, but man’s contradictory …

Isaiah 62 is a prophecy of Jesus’ wedding to New Jerusalem, as recorded in the book of Revelation.  Interestingly, this prophecy only makes sense to me if consider God’s Trinitarian nature. 
“…you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will give.”
It’s the groom that gives a bride her name –> the Old Testament God will give Israel her name –> Jesus is the groom –> Jesus will give her a new name + Jesus and the Old Testament God are one.  

But, as I discussed in Jesus, the Father’s Proxy on Earth, Jesus in the Old Testament is always in the flesh, and the Father …

I disussed (http://geocreationism.com/2007/10/08/was-jesus-a-young-earth-creationist/)how the following scriptures are often offered as proof of a young a earth:
Mark 10:6, Mark 13:19-20, Luke 11:50-51, Isaiah 45:18
Perhaps instead this proves that God did not consider creation to be over until the end of Day 6, even though it took billions of years.  Rather than telling us why billions of years is too long to be a beginning, perhaps these scriptures reveals why evolution appears to have occurred until the end of creation, but no longer!

An article by Dr. Terry Mortenson, which is found at http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v2/n3/jesus-and-the-age-of-earth, argues that Jesus believed in a young earth. I have not read the article yet in much detail.  So, what you read below will be my thoughts and blow-by-blow analysis as I go through it.  Mortenson states his purpose:
It will be argued that Jesus clearly was a young-earth creationist and that if we call Him Lord we should follow Him rather than the contemporary scientific majority, which primarily consists of unbelievers.
 The writer argues for Jesus’ belief in the scriptures.  I agree with him.
All these above-mentioned statements reflect some aspect of Jesus’ attitude toward or belief about the Scriptures. But far more frequently Jesus reveals his conviction about the authority …