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Originally Posted by Highdesertsuby
How does my viewpoint involve any of these definitions? Is something bad going to happen to the world because I choose to believe (based on some darn good evidence) that the earth isn't old and that we didn't evolve from a rock 3.4 billion years ago? The use of the word "responsible" in any form implies that something important is hanging on my opinion about the age of the earth and of our origins...so please explain why you chose to use that word.
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As you said, you choose to believe that the evidence supports your belief in the events of Genesis being literally true. Very, very, very few people with your level of education (or mine for that matter) would agree with your conclusion, and I'd be very surprised if you could find anyone who interprets the geological record similarly to you without also believing fully in Creation and the Bible's version of events.
What I find irresponsible is the insistence by people that the Bible is infallible despite the overwhelming evidence that mankind is anything but. More importantly, your God can happily coexist with what the vast majority of what science currently believes to be true regarding the age of the universe and the processes that led from whatever the very beginning was, to where we are now. Very little of what I view as good science can coexist with what the Bible says. Nothing in modern-day science indicates that there is not, cannot be, or even probably is no infallible, omnipotent God. Trying to make empirical research fit your conclusions is most definitely irresponsible.
Lastly, since it seems important to you, no I did not learn geology and biology from cable TV. What I know of geology I learned from Dave Boden, and what I learned of biology and evolution largely comes from my high school biology teacher. I've added to both of those topics among many, many others over the years simply by being curious about the world around me. I've never, ever tried to make what I learn fit a preconceived notion.
I'm not going to try to debate you on the Truth About Geology, because I don't need to. You've obviously had this discussion more than once with people who have educations equal to yours, or better, and still you take a contrary position. Neither of us is going to accept the other's position as closer to the truth, so there's nowhere for the discussion to go but down. The best we can hope for is to agree to disagree, and hope to maybe find some common ground in the next thread about a "taboo" topic.