Really?  You want to hold me feet to the fire over my use of the word &quot;hence&quot;?  Very well, let me be as excruciatingly precise as I can.<p>Ben Carson self-identifies as Seventh-Day Adventist (7DA).  Hence, if he follows the doctrine of the church he professes to believe in, he is a YEC.<p>Now, it is possible for someone to self-identify as a 7DA and not be a YEC, just as it is possible for someone to self-identify as a Catholic and deny the authority of the pope, at least on some matters (e.g. all the self-identified Catholics who deny that the use of birth control is a mortal sin).  But Ben Carson is clearly a creationist.  He&#x27;s said so on numerous occasions.  Arguing over whether he is a YEC or some other flavor of creationist is really whittling at the margins.  He&#x27;s specifically proclaimed ignorance of the age of the earth.  He uses YEC code words like &quot;evolutionist&quot; and &quot;micro-evolution&quot;.<p>Finally, it would be exceedingly peculiar for a 7DA to not be a YEC.  The <i>name</i> of the sect derives from their belief in Biblical literalism, and specifically from their belief in creation as described in Genesis.  A 7DA who is not a creationist would be like a Mormon who thinks Joseph Smith was a con man.  Again, not impossible.  People can self-identify as anything they want, and once you&#x27;ve abandoned science and reason anything is possible.  But it would be really, really weird.