Are Creationists shooting themselves in the foot?

Creationism as an identifiable movement is around since the 70's I think.But using the biblical account of creation as historical is as old as christianity itself, so I doubt it is really shooting christianity in the foot.I would rather think the opposite, that YEC helps sustain christianity. As a 'proof' of this, I can say that there is no creationist movement over here in Quebec (canada) and christianity is on a much more steep decline then in the US.

Quebec is very different from Canada. In western Canada (BC, Alberta, etc.) there is a good creationist movement with religious percentages very similar to the US. Lots of evangelical christians over there.Here in Quebec, its is not evangelical, it is catholic. In fact up to the 1950's, 99% of the population were practising catholics. In a time-span of 50 years, that pourcentage went down to maybe 5%. (and I'm being generous here). I think the fact that catholics compromised on the issue of origins with evolution had a negative impact on the number of christians here, not a positive one.

Historically, there has been one way of interpreting the creation account.The new ways of interpreting genesis came in the early 1900's when churches started compromising with the scientific facts.The question is now, why would have God hidden the truth of Genesis for over 1800 years to his church ?I personnally think that every theologian up to the 1900's had the correcte interpretation of genesis. If science proves this to be wrong, then the Bible is not the word of God, it is the word of faillible men.

What a coicidence that AiG did a research study through America's research Group) exactly on this very subject and that the results have been published this month lol. They say the results are shocking.The book is Already Gone, it costs 13bucks (hey, they have to finance these research somehow, since they don't have government funds hh)Edited by slevesque, : grammar