Young Earth Creationism is a False Theology

Well, when I set up this debate, it had five rounds. Don't know why it's three now, but that's ok. We can limit it to Biblical and theological arguments, since this is more of a theological debate, dropping scientific arguments, though it seems those are certainly more on the sign of one who accepts evolution. No matter, however.My Biblical argument will be Three-Fold:The Genesis Account Contradicts ItselfThe Genesis Account Contains Ancient CosmologyThe Genesis Account is not literally accepted by YEC1. The Genesis Account Contradicts ItselfGenesis 1-2 is filled with contradictions. In modern historical criticism of the Old Testament, we have identified some points that indicate the Torah is actually a combination of several different text sources. This can clearly be seen in Genesis 1-2. Genesis 1 uses one source, while Genesis 2 uses another.Here's a few contradictions and changes between Genesis 1-21. Does God create plants before man, or man before plants?Genesis 1:11, 26And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so... So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him:male and female he created them."Genesis 2:5-7, 9a"When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground,and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground—then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature... And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food."In Genesis 1, God makes plants before man. In Genesis 2, God makes man before plants. My opponent will no doubt try to find a way around this, but let me explain. The Hebrew word for plant, 'eseb, is used in Genesis 1 and 2. Genesis 1:30 backs up this interpretation when it says that Elohim created ALL the plants for food. Genesis 1 and 2 makes no differentiation between types of plants.2. The Genesis Account Contains Ancient Cosmology “The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.” (1:2) Nowhere in Genesis does God create water. This may seem puzzling to a modern reader, but an ancient reader, or listener in a more oral culture, would have easily understood this. Some origin myths contained an eternal chaos and water from which the universe, and all in it, was birthed. There are other Bible verses that give the exact same idea of an eternal ocean. Perhaps the most overlooked is 2 Peter 3:5 “For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water,” “Then God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”” (1:6) The next day begins, and God starts the next process of sculpting, the final one that we will look at. Yet again, the eternal waters are presented. This time, however, the waters are being separated. The casual observer does not think too deeply about this passage, and the meaning can be lost. The word “waters” in Hebrew is of great importance to understanding the original meaning of this text. Is this a literal water used literal or a figurative term, perhaps for the atmosphere? The root word used is מָ֫יִם is used, which connotes both water like would be normally conceived, and the eternal waters. The same word is used in Genesis 6-9 to connote the flood. It is used both as a literal word for water and with the idea of the eternal waters. The concept of “expanse” is also translated as “firmament” or “vault” in some translations. To support an ocean of literal water to flood the earth chapters later, would not this firmament need to be a solid form, but is that also not a preposterous statement? The word for expanse may have meant a flattened sheet of metal, as the verbal form implies, or ice. Josephus even gives commentary that the latter is the correct interpretation when he says Elohim created a “crystalline” around the earth.Bible Exegesis Conclusion: Genesis 1 is actually a mix of two different, contradictory narratives, and contains cosmology of a solid dome sky and eternal water. It is an ancient myth, not a science textbook.3. The Genesis Account is NOT Literally Accepted by YEC.Young Earth Creationists actually do not take the Bible "literally" in this passage. If they did, they would have to accept what the ancients believed: the sky was a solid dome, the earth was created from water, and therefore all we know from science is bunk, even a round earth or that we revolve around the sun.However, a YEC picks and chooses what to take literally, and what to ignore, ending in a failed hodge-podge interpretation that ignores the meaning of the text then, and what it means for us today.