SerialAntagonist

Edit: Thanks to everyone for their input! And on the off-chance that anyone ever reads this again, let me clarify that I was in my youth a devout YEC (though we didn't call it that), and I made this deal with myself then so I could work alongside people with whom I completely disagreed. And look how that turned out.

I never expected this idea to turn the world around overnight, or ever. But it had a hand in turning my world around, and the world of more than a handful of others since then. Take that for what it's worth.

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Here's the deal I propose that we offer any YEC's willing to discuss it:

• We accept and admit that the Universe could be far younger than it

He was born without eyelids. We had to keep his eyes irrigated and shielded from light while they searched for a pediatric plastic surgeon who could correct it.

Fortunately one of the top surgeons in our region was available. When our attending physician explained the situation to him, he asked, "Has the patient been circumcised yet?" Our doc replied that he hadn't, and the surgeon explained his plan.

The NICU cut a short length of 5mm silicone tubing and placed it over the tip of our newborn's penis, then carefully stretched his little foreskin over the end of the tubing and taped it in place. After 12 hours they replaced it with 7.5mm tubing, then after 24 hours they replaced that with 1