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Pat Robertson said something that actually makes sense. Incredible!If you teach your children things that are contrary to all the available evidence, then you are going to lose them. And trying to justify it as "teaching them to believe the Bible" is false, because YEC (in this specific case the 6,000-year age) is not based on the Bible, but rather on theology, on fallible human (mis)interpretation of what they think that the Bible says. Though "creation science" goes even further in that when (they would say "if") it is found that the earth is indeed old, then they demand that you abandon your faith and become an atheist. The gross error that they are committing with that is that an old earth only contradicts their theology and says nothing about the Bible itself nor about God Himself.Teach your children the truth!

It's really quite simple to do and to keep everything lined up correctly, at least up until the Flood. I read one creationist's calculations (more likely somebody else's that he failed to properly attribute, something he very commonly did in his newsletter) which then used other information to get him to the succession of kings, at which point he added up all their reigns up to the Babylonian Captivity, the end of which he says is set at 538 BCE, which places the starting point at about 4185 BCE. He gave the age of the earth in then-current 1996 at 6181 years, but he had inadvertently added a year by not having taken into account the lack of a Year 0. The Jewish Calendar reported 1996 as the year 5757, so this calculation yielded an age 424 years greater than the Jewish Calendar does.A rainy-day activity that doesn't really have any relevence.

By which I mean do not teach them lies. That should apply to matters of both science and non-science.Obviously, the context here is in reference to scientific evidence, so do not teach blatant falsehoods about the evidence. Based on my 30 years of experience with the subject, "creation science" consists almost entirely of lies about science, lies about scientific evidence, and lies about whatever else they think might serve their agenda.