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What would steelmanning Young Earth Creationism even look like? Young Earth Creationism is already the playdoughman* version of Creationism. If you steelman it, it wouldn't be Young Earth anymore.
*If I'm never remembered for anything else in the rationalosphere, I would like to be known as the creator of the term "playdoughmanning".
I don't dispute this, except that this is also how I feel about some of the views some other people in the rationalist community think deserve to be steelmanned.
Indeed, is there ever a case where it isn't at least plausible that the steelman version of view X wouldn't be view X anymore?