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:
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.
I am with you. When Moses wrote the Genesis account, he was not concerned with the time of the creation, but with its nature, i.e., that the one true God was its Author, and that nothing in the created order was divine. Also, if you read king lists and other things from the ancient world, you will conclude that an ancient earth was a commonly-held notion back then.