Try to imagine the mental somersaults you'd have to perform to believe that Genesis is good history. I'm related to a young earth creationist, and from time to time I hear some of the stuff she spouts. Because her reading is -- from everything she mentions -- confined to 'spiritual' writings, she doesn't come up against hard knocks. Her dad (my uncle) once said to me, with some bewilderment, "K____ thinks the earth is about 10,000 years old. She doesn't believe evolution happened." It follows that she wouldn't believe that our measurement of space is real, and that there could be galaxies sending us light from millions of years ago. And that cancels physics, which depends on our understanding of those measurements. Carbon dating? Whales once having limbs? Fake news! Of immense importance to her: the Shroud of Turin.
I never fail to vote, because I know she votes, too.
