And the most important instruction you get is open your mind to new ideas, back off the old prejudices and preconceptions. And let it all run in. And knock, knock, knock on their door as soon as they set foot in the university are door knocking creationists. So I thought well the only way to check this is to monitor, do this every single year, same group of students and see what happens Over the years the number of believers has stayed fairly stable. Creation Science is one of these sorts of things, it s a kind of a fringe lunacy that cannot qualify now as science.
Science treats the age of the earth like any other question.
The available evidence is assessed and a theory proposed that fits that evidence. Then it s tested. If more or better evidence is unearthed, theories are changed and retested. The current, and almost universally accepted, theory has the continents moving very slowly about the globe on massive plates. Now this doesn t happen overnight.