Christianity and Creationism.

[WinePusher]

Creationism is defined as: http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=art ... iew&ID=177

I. The Universe and the Solar System Were Suddenly Created.
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II. Life Was Suddenly Created.
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III. All Present Living Kinds of Animals and Plants Have Remained Fixed Since Creation, Other than Extinctions, and Genetic Variation in Originally Created Kinds Has Only Occurred within Narrow Limits.
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IV. Mutation and Natural Selection Are Insufficient To Have Brought About Any Emergence of Present Living Kinds from a Simple Primordial Organism.
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V. Man and Apes Have a Separate Ancestry.
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VI. The Earth's Geologic Features Were Fashioned Largely by Rapid, Catastrophic Processes that Affected the Earth on a Global and Regional Scale (Catastrophism).
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VII. The Inception of the Earth and of Living Kinds May Have Been Relatively Recent.

The point of this thread is not to debate the merits of each of those points, but to discuss where they fall in Christianity.

1) Is it reasonable to think that God would have us believe this when most of it runs contrary to scientific thought?
2) Do you think it hurts the Christian movement when YEC advocates promote ideas which are unpopular with secular scientific thought?
3) Does scripture really comment on any of these points? Does it really matter if Humans and Apes have common ancestry and whether or not the earth was created hundreds of thousands of years ago or a billionare years ago?

[WinePusher]

The Biblical authors were not all knowing, they would have wrote with limited foresight and knowledge of the world. If we take this crucial fact into account, it would be unwise to interpret the Bible in a literal manner pertaining to creation.

They did not have to be all knowing, they just had to record and repeat what they had heard, from He who is.

That model of biblical inspiration seems extreme, doesn't it? What you seem to be suggesting is that the Biblical authors simply acted as vessels who wrote whatever God dictated to them. My view of inspiration is that the humans were inspired by God, yes, but also wrote using their own style, knowledge and traits.

I think it is comparable to the Incarnation, where Jesus became God but retained his humanity, so the Bible was written by God but also was written by humans prone to error and limited knowledge.