Having just worked through Erasmus’ Praise of Folly, I am reminded of the difference between the madness of folly, which is part of the gospel, and the madness that is its own end. It is one of the reasons I remain Pentecostal.

The madness of the dance, the spontaneity, the rapid movement, and utter giving up to another is a kind of madness akin to the madness of ecstasy–the Bacchanalian movement of wonder, love, and praise.

It is the dance, as C. S. Lewis calls it, which he captures so well through Mr. Tumnus’ longings to Susan in The Lord, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

May we all become such humans who know how to give ourselves over to the wonder precisely as we seek to fathom the mystery of the larger whole to which all these “facts” are related.

Why is this considered weird (your belief in a young earth)? You’re only standing on the shoulders of 1800 years of a church that took the words of Scripture as being the word of God, and believed that what He says He did, is what He in fact did accomplish. It is the current aberrant view in evangelicalism today that has acquiesced and compromised with ‘interpretations’ of secular science to say that the earth is old (4.6 billion years) and the universe is old (14 billion years). The Christian who wants to subordinate his theology to the proclamations of modern science is the weird one, don’t you think?

I’m not really sure you think you’re weird, in fact, in this regard (maybe in others), for your convictions about a young earth are held in spite of the purported ‘overwhelming’ evidence to the purported contrary.

John Mark said,
“They wish they were not eccentric, but are willing to be considered so.”

Yes, perhaps, most probably, in today’s culture, but also grieving perhaps that the one who calls himself an evangelical has such a low view of Scripture, unwilling to look at the exegetical and theological implications of holding to an old earth and what this says about the God they worship.