Rox, I'm sure perhaps one or two honest ones awakened to YECism in graduate-level geology after noting "Fish fossils" in your bodacious mountain-tops of Colorado.
I know of none. What actually happens is that as one becomes more familiar with the science of geology it becomes virtually impossible to adhere to YECism. Glen Morton has an interesting story to tell about this. Maybe someone has a link to it. He was once a YEC and slowly converted after working in the field where YEC dogma collided with functional mainstream science.
But here’s an interesting Freudian slip which sounds like geologist conspiracy. You stated: It's almost impossible to get a degree in geology and adhere to YECism. This is appalling. I certainly hope some lurker’s taxes aren’t funding such geological bigotry.
Not bigotry. Simple facts. You cannot rationalize the mountains of evidence for an old earth with the YEC doctrine. As Rox said, the only real way is to be a committed YEC in the first place. In fact some have said that they took degrees in geology simply to disprove mainstream science.
I converted to YECism during my freshman year at medical school after reading geological YECism for the first time in my life. I already possessed 2 science degrees: electronic engineering (AAS) and Psychology (BS). Up to then, I followed OECism. It was that old fundy "gap-theory" elaborating upon Gen. 1.1-3.
Currently, I hold an MS in biomedical science, have practiced podiatric medicine about 14 years, and have been board certified in podiatric surgery most of that period. I personally can’t conceive of any mega-ToE from any physiological perspective. Mutational NS is way-out for me.
Well, see: you're not a geologist!
At present I’m open to OEC because I don’t really know what TIME is. How about you, Rox? Do you or your geological authorities speculate anything cosmic about time and/or the primordial geosphere?
Speaking for myself, sure. That is part of a geologist's job, to create viable past scenarios that predict earth conditions.
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6) Finally, such non-chaotic (excellent) geological formations (during their generation) parsimoniously suggest redemptive events permeated everywhere. In other words, geo-science proves that the handiwork of God and His Redeemer continued upon the geosphere even after the beginning.
I'm not sure I have a handle on 'excellent geological formations'. Why could they not suggest normal physical processes rather than 'redemptive events'? Are you saying that the deposition of beach sands constitutes some supernatural event and that we are somehow being rewarded with a beach? And you would call that a 'parsimonious explanation'?