A young-earth creationist response
Biblical responses to Hugh Ross from a young-earth creationist perspective, with scientific arguments where they help answer the question.
Compare the biblical passages, Ross’s reading and the reasons for this site’s young-earth interpretation.
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Genesis records a division in Peleg’s days without naming a drowned land bridge. Ross’s date depends on that identification and a conditional lifespan calculation; the chapter’s human geography favors another reading here.
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Ross’s biological-production argument needs an inventory and explicit accumulation model. The FAO annual-energy estimate is not a universal maximum, and the table cells were unavailable in the text extraction.
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Ross and the YEC reading both affirm eight human survivors. The disagreement concerns chronology and genetic inference: a lineage's common ancestor, retained variation and a complete founding-population model answer different questions.
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This YEC reading connects plant-food provision, the curse and future liberation. It answers Ross's contextual arguments while distinguishing what Genesis and Romans 8 state from a wider Fall-and-restoration interpretation.
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Heat and radiation are serious objections to proposed accelerated Flood mechanisms. Genesis’s global scope does not supply a physical solution, and Scripture does not require those particular mechanisms.
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Jeremiah’s covenant assurance and Romans’s hope for creation do not specify laboratory constants. This YEC response distinguishes their theological meaning from tests of particular physical models.