Young Earth Creationism

Claim: The universe, Earth, and all life were supernaturally created by God in six literal days approximately 6,000 to 10,000 years ago.

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Bullshit Meter

Pure ontological fiction, excluding real psychological effects.

86.1%
Hard empirical modelHeuristicHybrid pseudosciencePure fiction

Physics vs. mind loop

Does it work in the physical world, or only through belief and behaviour?

Physical world6.1%
Mind & behaviour8.4%

Neither physically real nor a meaningful psychological loop.

Bio & cult hazard

28.4%

Risk of abandoning medicine and of getting trapped in a closed group.

☣ Medical risk12.1%
🔒 Cult isolation50.7%

Topological fingerprint

The structural profile of the claim on five axes.

Empirical rigorMagic & dogmaRhetorical fogConspiracyPsychosocial
Empirical rigor
13.7%
Magic & dogma
57.3%
Rhetorical fog
25.6%
Conspiracy
36.9%
Psychosocial
4.7%
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Ockham's guillotine

What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.

Hard core0.7%
Common sense2.7%
Pure ritual26.2%
Empty negation70.4%

Scam & grift

2.4%

How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.

1. Bait2.9%
2. Guru dependence25.0%
3. Blaming the client1.9%

Fog & Barnum

43.3%

Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.

Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…

  • Barnum effect35.5%
  • Motte-and-bailey39.2%
  • Stolen jargon13.9%

Guru roulette

Does the result depend on who performs it?

Not applicable

Fossil & dogma clock

95.8%

Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?

  1. 🚀Active science1.7%
  2. 🩹Degenerative patching27.4%
  3. 🎭Marketing chameleon0.8%
  4. 🦴Fossil in amber70.0%

Tin-foil hat reactor

27.2%

How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.

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Paranoia level 2/5 · A few bad actors