“there is plenty of data available to reconcile the the age of the earth and creationism.”
Baloney.
The article is further proof of the fact that the young earth brand of creationism is ridiculous, as if we didn’t already know that. And as for the “old earth” brand of creationism, further proof of the millions of years the Earth has been around forces any rational person to conclude three things: (1) the Adam and Eve creation story is bunk, something anyone with half a brain already knew, (2) the original sin doctrine of Christianity is bunk, and therefore the necessity for redemption from Jesus is bunk, and (3) God apparently could create man only millions of years after the Earth was created (and billions of years after the universe was created), raising the question as to why God is so inefficient and unorganized. A real God presumably could work much faster. We apparently got stuck with a pretty slow, or maybe just lazy God.
There is no response that one could make to this. You obviously have not had true exposure to the greatness of God.