Young Earth. Flat Earth.

"... if the only picture of Christ I had was your attitude towards me, I'd run."
Mary Scweitzer, a Christian biologist debating a fundamentalist.
Source: Discover magazine.

People cling to their toys. That includes, drugs, abusive significant others and, "fixed beliefs," i.e. faith. I'm sorry but if this day and age, you still believe that our planet is literally six thousand years old, let's just say you're badly out of touch.

A few exceptionally bright scientists are actually Christian. One such man is MIT professor Gerald T. Shroeder, the author of The Science of God. It is very hard to have this kind of knowledge and believe that our planet is literally six thousand years old, in our reference frame.

It is perfectly possible for one clock to show a six-thousand-year time difference and for another -- 14.5 billion years. Both clocks can be right. And you don't need to be Shroeder to know that. Very careful experiments point to the conclusion that time is relative.

If you have devoted the last few years of your life to studying physics -- or if you were willing to drop whatever you're doing in favor of that -- you'd have very little wiggle room left. The evidence really leaves you only two options: accept it or abandon reason. Yeah, I know, you believers may argue that our power of reason is limited. I agree, though I think it's the best we've got.

But if you were to remain a reasonable individual, what then? Would you just toss your cross? "Sorry, Jesus, I don't believe in you any more. I'll just go steal, cheat and molest little children like I always wanted to.'' If so, then what can I tell you? Go to hell. Real faith isn't scared of evolution or carbon dating.