Sooner or later somebody might develop a machine for viewing past events, and it might show God actually creating the world in seven days, 6000 years ago. My guess is that, IF that were to happen, these same “science” groups would be in court trying to ban the machine and pass laws forbidding anybody to show it to students.
I’ve also heard a description that nails the mindset of the atheists really well:
If there were a huge thunderclap,
and the earth shook and rippled,
and the sky opened up and everyone looked up simultaneously
to see an enormous Michaelangelo inspired bearded figure
pointing His finger down on a specific atheist,
and a booming voice declared
“[insert name here], STOP THE NONSENSE, I _DO_ EXIST”
said atheist would attempt to explain it away as some sequence of natural events.
Such is the nature of the unwillingness to believe.
Actually no. Part of science is the ability to accept the truth, whatever it may be as long as the evidence supports it. However we do have machines that can look back in time and tell us how things were. They’re called telescopes. And there’s a group of people that refuse to believe the fact the Earth is older than 6,000 years.