These young earth creationists are such chicken-shits.

A creationist position that the earth and universe was created by an omnipotent deity 6000 years ago does not conflict with observation, if it is assumed that the deity was malicious enough to make everything look old.

However, even in the dim recesses of what passes for the creationist mind, there is a realization that the methods of science and engineering, based on rational evaluation of natural evidence, have been tremendously successful at generating useful knowledge. No other method of inquiry comes remotely close.

Thus, creationists obsessively cloak their religious beliefs in the language of science (although pseudo-science is the best they can do).