Finally, a fool-proof method to rid the world of nonsense peddlers

Creationism is weird. The people who adhere to it are nice enough, but man they believe some kooky stuff. Most of the time delving into that world of cherry-picked isolated facts, misrepresenting findings and general quackery isn't really worth it - unless they're pushing their way into a school board or otherwise moving out of their homeschool isolationism I'd rather just leave things be.

Other times a Creationist will say something that is just so utterly incomprehensible and silly I'm forced, against my better nature, to try to make sense of it. 

This is one of those times.

Our very own National Creationism Examiner apparently believes that unless you are a died-in the-wool, six-thousand year Young Earth Creationist, you are an atheist. 

This will no doubt come as a shock to the several billion religious people in the world who recognize the scientific reality of the Earths age, but hey don't take my word for it, check it out for yourself.

According to him "once any geologist accepts the proposition that the earth is 4.6 billion years old, he has committed himself to philosophical naturalism. Such a position rules out the miraculous and commits its holder to a version of history that excludes miracles."

For those not fully schooled in the realm of philosophy, philosophical naturalism is the belief that “there is only one way of knowing, the empirical way that is the basis of science."

If he's correct, this is fantastic news for Skeptics! All we need to do is convince people of the power of the Earth's testimony to her own age and we'll rid the world of ghost hunters, faith-healers, astral-projectionists, homeopaths, psychic mediums, and creationists. (Well that last one is probably true.)

Sadly this isn't true. Our dear fundamentalist is simply speaking from his fundament. Those who recognize the significance of radiation decay (and the linear calibration which exhibits dating convergence using tree-ring data, marine deposits, sediment deposits and cave formations) might be accepting the results of methodological naturalism - aka science - on this occasion but that in no way precludes them from believing in God, gods miracles, Adam and Eve, Beezlebub, or the genie from Aladdin.