“What is it with young earth scientists that gets everyone riled up so?”
YEC is not science.
“What are people afraid of?”
Well, let’s see. Creationists champion an attitude that ideological purity is superior to scientific accuracy. In and of itself, Creationism isn’t that harmful, but it is a fertile field for anti-vaxxers, which gets people killed of avoidable diseases, and for climate denial, which is going to destroy the planet. Also, they protect and project intolerance of homosexuality and transgendered persons,which is causing all sort of harms, because their bronze-age superstition is more important than knowing what the fuck they’re talking about.
So,Harm. that’s what I fear about ‘Young Earth Scientism.’
“It's just science”
Rather the opposite.
“ like I thought people liked and put their faith in.”
I do like science. Researchers in creationism sign a statement of faith that they will not publish any evidence that argues against a literal reading of Genesis. It’s not science.
And I do not put ‘faith’ in science. But I’m sitting here on a computer, talking on the internet, benefiting from the products of rather a lot of science. I trust it.
“If it is wrong then it will be corrected like people say all science corrects itself.”
We are correcting it. That’s why we keep telling young earthers that they’re full of shit.
“ The people that did the reasearch are real scientists, with real degrees.”
I don’t care what is in their wall, if they come to supernatural conclusions, then it’s not naturalistic science.
“Why make it a person attack? The evidence speaks for itself.”
The evidence DOES speak for itself. But scientists that find the supernatural aren’t doing science.