YECism: sect or cult?

OECs were trained to constantly use terms like "Ussher's chronology" and other slights of hand to make it seem like YEC views were some freakish modern invention.The YEC view was universal. (outside of pagan India and perhaps other non Western nations that is)Why do you think Charles Lyell put the age of the Earth as young as 100,000 years old even after his groundbreaking 1831 book?(I think his range was 100,000 to 1 million but I'm not too sure)Answers in Genesis is actually correct in one area anyway (The Fundamentals of the early 20th century are irrelevant except perhaps as a catalyst for action on the part of YECs, but YECs were the vast overwhelming majority and the numerical superiority over OECs were even greater the further back you go)

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I think YECism is a cult in the sense of "mind-control cult". They certainly don't want their adherents studying science.

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But Creationism itself was a respectable belief until about 1859.And many of the founders of the various fields in modern science would have been on the creationist side.Even more shocking is that well into the 1900s, you had leading lights (like Mendel) who were creationists.This isn't quite as simple of an issue as some like to make it.(The evidence is in NOW for an old earth and even evolution itself - rather decisively, but the older creationist views have the weight of nearly all of recorded human history on their side)