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The vast majority of Christians are smart enough to recognize the six days in Genesis is allegory, and not to mix their faith with scientific inquiry. So speak for yourself, you embarrass the rest of us.

"...and not to mix their faith with scientific inquiry."

Personally, I do not understand their suicidal zeal. It's suicidal, because they have to turn virtually every scientific discipline upside down to give it a superficial semblance of reconciliation with their interpretation of the Bible. If isotope ratios are inconvenient, then to hell with the decay rate. If the chronology derived from geological layers are inconvenient, then to hell with stratigraphy. To hell with physics. To hell with computer science and mathematics. And, of course, to hell with biology.

Actually, all this quackery is completely unnecessary. If one wants to believe in God creating the Earth 6,000 years ago in 6 days, then there is a very simple way of reconciling it with material evidence: it was completely within God's capabilities to create not only the Earth and the living things, but also, for reasons known to God, the fossils and the right isotopic ratios to suggest a longer history. Feel free to believe, and all this juggling, cherry picking, false 'gotchas', spinning and twisting the reality (called 'creation science') becomes completely unnecessary.

The vast majority of Christians are smart enough to recognize the six days in Genesis is allegory, and not to mix their faith with scientific inquiry. So speak for yourself, you embarrass the rest of us.

Most Christians I know are Bible believers and know that Genesis, as the revealed WORD OF GOD is not a lie or an allegory, but God's TRUTH! This is a good place to start in learning about God's word: http://www.answersingenesis.org/ I will pray that you read some of it and that the truth of The Word moves you to accept what The Lord has been revealed.