[TXnMA]

"Because it contradicts God’s word. Although, I must admit I find a six day creation far more impressive than 4.5 billion years."

No, it contradicts your ego-centered misinterpretation of His Word (which is absolutely true).

If you knew the omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal, timeless Creator Whom I worship, you would be amazed that He bothered to share with us that his design, creation, formation, direction, development and maintenance of His universe took any time at all. Instead, you insist on cramming your shrunken deity into an earth-limited timeframe that your mind can encompass -- despite the manifold witness of His majestic Creation:

(Click on this image of a miniscule fragment of His Creation for data that shames your Ussherian confinement of I AM into your Sistine ceiling image of Him.)

[allmendream]

The heavens proclaim the glory of God.

It is not a trick and a lie to fool us into believing in a vast and ancient universe, one needn't fool with the laws of physics and create the light from dying stars that have not even existed within the last 100,000 years.

[GodGunsGuts]

You are free to pursue your pagan heresy whereever it takes you.

Haven’t you caught on yet? I no longer read your replies (including the one I am responding to now). So you are arguing with yourself. You really should seek professional help about that.

[DallasMike]

Here's a quote from the article:

Throughout the book, he smears young-earth creationists, depicting them as people who ‘latch on to people with dubious credentials who tell us what we want to hear’ (p. 23), who accuse the secular scientific establishment of conspiracy to cover up young-earth evidence (p. 31) and engage in unethical scientific practices (p. 187).

I hate to say it, but that's a pretty accurate description of what the YEC movement does. For example, one of the big YEC websites, TrueOrigin.org:

1. Publishes articles by Dr. Russell Humphreys, who believes that the universe was once a huge ball of water "about one or two light-years in diameter." For an even worse case of YECs engaging in conspiracy theories, see The Suppression of Inconvenient Facts in Physics: The Big Bang Scandal.
2. Posts "rebuttals," like this one from the infamous Dr. Humphreys, who claims that non-YEC creationists are "generally not very accurate, rational, or honest." He then goes on to accuse several non-YEC scientists of not practicing good scholarship.

As for unethical practices, one example is the radiometric work of John Woodmorappe, which is refuted here by Stephen Schimmrich. Schimmrich also points to the duplicity of other YEC scientists like Carl Baugh and As the author says:

As a geologist and an evangelical Christian, I am very concerned about the popularity of young-earth creationism within the Christian community. I too believe in Genesis 1:1, but there is simply no credible evidence that the earth is less than 10,000 years old (and a lot of credible evidence that it's around 4,600,000,000 years old) or that there was a geologically-recent global flood. My experience with young-earth creationists is that their arguments are almost always based on obsolete data, a misrepresentation of the facts, and a willful ignorance of contrary data. My experience has also taught me, and many others, that virtually all of the claims made by young-earth creationists simply crumble when investigated in any detail.