Against all common sense, some groups of people are promoting a young universe. A 6000 year old universe is being said to align with God's and Allah's Holy Books.

This is simply to get their flocks to fall in line and be prepared to obey their religious leaders unquestioningly.

The idea of a universe that young is so ridiculous that the purveyors of it force the indoctrination upon children in private schools so that they will carry the delusion on to further generations.

To point out the lack of common sense in this young universe idea, here is the most obvious contradiction of it.

The universe is supposed to be only 6000 years old but we can see galaxies that are more than a billion light years away.

If it takes light one year to travel a light year, then the galaxy we see that far away must be at least a billion years old. Simple math proves the complete ridiculousness of this young universe fantasy.

Nothing that young-earth creationists had taught me about geology turned out to be true. I took a poll of my ICR graduate friends who have worked in the oil industry. I asked them one question.

"From your oil industry experience, did any fact that you were taught at ICR, which challenged current geological thinking, turn out in the long run to be true? ,"

That is a very simple question. One man, Steve Robertson, who worked for Shell grew real silent on the phone, sighed and softly said 'No!' A very close friend that I had hired at Arco, after hearing the question, exclaimed, "Wait a minute. There has to be one!" But he could not name one. I can not name one. No one else could either. One man I could not reach, to ask that question, had a crisis of faith about two years after coming into the oil industry. I do not know what his spiritual state is now but he was in bad shape the last time I talked to him.

And being through with creationism, I very nearly became through with Christianity. -- Glen Morton