And this is what the young person growing up in that ghetto has to overcome. That means any time you find anything out, through science or any other method, you have to check the Bible to see if it's OK to believe what you just discovered. Or so the creationists maintain. We have all seen them ridicule the most powerful and central ideas in science as 'silly', 'illogical', 'unprovable', 'ludicrous', and anything else they could find in the thesaurus. Following it obviously does not help us approach truth.
Truth is whatever scripture says, regardless of any amount of evidence to the contrary.
He has been protected, as much as possible, from hearing what scientists have to say. When he has heard people he respects mention evolution at all, or anything else 'scientific', it has often been with sneering ridicule. To put it plainly, a young-earth creationist would have no future in modern research, even if he wanted it. The ghetto has a new victim, the tenement a new tenant, the 'hood' a new 'gangsta', and the pusher a new junkie. That new recruit to that ghetto of impoverished ideas will be convinced that his insular, anti-intellectual 'neighborhood' is the only 'cool' one.