Imagine a wall surrounding a village and the only way to see through it is a pipe. When you look through the pipe you see objects on the other side. The question is how far away are the objects? There are two schools of thought in the village. One group measures how big the objects appear and compare them with the similar objects in the village and say the objects are thus and so distance away. 

The other group has a document they claim is from the builder of the tube which says the objects are much closer than the other group because there are "lenses" in the tube which distorts the sizes of the objects. The other group says this is poppycock because nobody can see the lenses and no one even believes the document is real any more. It was just made up.

There is another group which believes the document is real and the builder of the wall wrote it, but think the lenses are metaphors which don't really distort the image. While claiming to hold the document and the builder in high regard they nevertheless say the first group is right and the second group is wrong, because SCIENCE!

In this story, the wall is the past, the tube is history, the document is the Bible and the lenses are the miracles of Creation, the Fall, the Flood and the Tower of Babel. Young Earth Creationists are mocked because SCIENCE! says the Earth is old. The Earth is thought to be old because of observations which if you assume there are no miracles, it has to be old. But if the four miracles in the Bible actually happened, then materialistic, gradualistic analysis will ALWAYS be wrong. Since Orthodox Christians believe they get a miracle every week at liturgy, it seems weird to me that any Orthodox Christian would have any reservations at all about a young Earth.

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