[bondserv]

Just for the record, I am a Young Earth Creationist because that is what a straightforward reading of the Bible indicates. I am also led to believe in a Young Earth by logically considering the precariousness of our environment when one considers what we know about our universe.

Billions of years of random complexity, in light of the catastrophic occurrences that have plagued the world in recent history, makes extended periods of time highly unlikely.

I would be unsurprised to discover that Von Braun took the same position.

[VadeRetro]

I would be unsurprised to discover that Von Braun took the same position.

He would have had some familiarity with, and correct understanding of, the evidence for what your link calls "long ages." Indeed, as I suspected, he seems not to have been a YEC and I would be stunned to hear differently.