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I don’t think YEC existed in the mid-19th century. It was (and remains) very much a deliberate reaction to evolutionary theory.
by Analemma_ 7y ago
I don’t think YEC existed in the mid-19th century. It was (and remains) very much a deliberate reaction to evolutionary theory.
- gwd 7y agoRight, but this was written in 1863, and Origin of the Species had just come out in 1859. (And there were various other evolutionary theories before then.) Like I said, it's just a guess, but the question of the age of the universe would have been very fresh at the time.