@SmashTheState You are glossing over one very important detail though; the “Young Earth” not only empathically and categorically refutes any and all evidence of the cosmos being over 600 years old, but also denies accepted scientific practices like carbon dating.
I mean, there are some things that are debatable, like whether Jesus was the Messiah or not, and that’s fine. However, any hard science that is subject to peer review and requires repeatable experimentation to confirm is utterly “trumped” by a literalist interpretation of the Bible.
It is telling, however, that the only place that this is an issue is a nation with science education scores well behind the industrialized world and falling. In nations that actually do have scientific literacy, they have been smart enough to reconcile scientific facts with the Bible by recognizing two simple facts;
1) “Day” is a measure of time based on a planets rotation around an axis as it orbits a star; when there are no such things as starts or planets yet, then by definition days don’t exist yet either.
2) Any being powerful enough to create the Earth, the Sun, Man, and everything else probably operates on a different time scale than us humans anyways; what God would call “a day” could be the human equivalent of billions of years just as a dollar in America $7.75 in Hong Kong.
But those arguments use reason, and reasoning with those who interpret religious texts literally is impossible. And if your claim about history relying on inductive reasoning is correct, then their “knowledge” of history is as flawed as their understanding of physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, paleontology, or any other hard science…. a fact that they wear as a badge of pride.