What Does Doug Wilson Believe?

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The Earth Is About 6,000 Years Old and Evolution Is False

Based on my rudimentary math skills, the world is about 6,000 years old.

In Douglas Wilson’s own words: 1 quote from 2025, from Sam Harris, cited to the source.

Based on my rudimentary math skills, the world is about 6,000 years old. [Sam Harris: “Okay.”] I'm a young earth creationist... I'm an anti-Darwinist young earth creationist... I believe in a historical [Adam]. I don't believe in evolution at all. Well, let me correct that. I do believe in variation within species.

— Douglas Wilson, interviewed by Sam Harris, “Sam Harris & Christian Nationalist Doug Wilson FULL EPISODE (443)”, Sam Harris (Making Sense podcast), at 9:36, November 12, 2025 Source ↗

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