Creationist speaker coming to Mankato
Issue date: 9/16/08
Section: Speakers and Presentations
Creationist author and speaker Brian Young travels the country debating professors about evolution and providing seminars on Biblical issues.
Young will be doing the latter on Wednesday at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Mankato, but he's always open to the former as well.
"I'd love to debate anybody there at Mankato," says Young, who is also making stops in St. Cloud and Rochester this week. He's not holding his breath, though. He says in his experience, finding people willing to debate can be difficult.
"One reason I think is that [evolutionists] lose - every time," Young said. "They have absolutely no evidence and when a creationist shows their supposed evidence and what that really is, they end up looking silly."
Young, 37, was raised a Christian but fell away from his faith while attending college. He said he fell "hook, line and sinker" for evolution after being led astray in part by deceptive teaching in classes.
After several years, though, Young indicated he began to notice inconsistencies and problems with evolution, including with dating methods used to estimate the age of rocks, fossils and the earth. Eventually he came to the conclusion the theory of evolution has no scientific support.
"In a nutshell, creationists are not against science - in fact, we love science," Young said. "We live on the same earth and have the same scientific data evolutions have, but we look at the same evidence they have and interpret it differently. Our interpretation is scientific. Evolutionists look at the same information, and their interpretation is inconsistent with what we see around us in the world today."
Young will address such topics as the fossil record, the ice age and theistic evolution during his talk at Our Savior's, which begins at 6:30 p.m.
Andy Kroemer, director of the youth and young adult ministry at Our Savior's and the person responsible for bringing Young to Mankato, encouraged skeptics to come with an open mind.
"He really puts the facts out there and opens the discussion," Kroemer said.
Young will be doing the latter on Wednesday at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Mankato, but he's always open to the former as well.
"I'd love to debate anybody there at Mankato," says Young, who is also making stops in St. Cloud and Rochester this week. He's not holding his breath, though. He says in his experience, finding people willing to debate can be difficult.
"One reason I think is that [evolutionists] lose - every time," Young said. "They have absolutely no evidence and when a creationist shows their supposed evidence and what that really is, they end up looking silly."
Young, 37, was raised a Christian but fell away from his faith while attending college. He said he fell "hook, line and sinker" for evolution after being led astray in part by deceptive teaching in classes.
After several years, though, Young indicated he began to notice inconsistencies and problems with evolution, including with dating methods used to estimate the age of rocks, fossils and the earth. Eventually he came to the conclusion the theory of evolution has no scientific support.
"In a nutshell, creationists are not against science - in fact, we love science," Young said. "We live on the same earth and have the same scientific data evolutions have, but we look at the same evidence they have and interpret it differently. Our interpretation is scientific. Evolutionists look at the same information, and their interpretation is inconsistent with what we see around us in the world today."
Young will address such topics as the fossil record, the ice age and theistic evolution during his talk at Our Savior's, which begins at 6:30 p.m.
Andy Kroemer, director of the youth and young adult ministry at Our Savior's and the person responsible for bringing Young to Mankato, encouraged skeptics to come with an open mind.
"He really puts the facts out there and opens the discussion," Kroemer said.
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