I politely suggest this is up there with denying the moon-landings.
A little reason, please. Just a little.
While I am not an academic, I at least know something about the way science "is done". And the scenario you describe is simply implausible beyond imagination - it is simply absurd (and I really think you have to know this somewhere deep down) to believe that tens of thousands of scientists have engaged in a massive co-ordinated conspiracy to distort and misrepresent the facts with respect to issue like evolution and the age of the earth.
The problem with the "conspiracy" line is at least four-fold:
1. It is quite absurd, given the number of people who would need to be involved and the number of years that have passed during which all these scientists have remained committed to this putative conspiracy;
2. You have no evidence given that, if you are right, there should be scads of emails and other items of proof that point to a conspiracy. And, at best, you will find nothing more than the very occasional piece of evidence that scientists are not engaged in the kind of wild misrepresentation that such a conspiracy would need.
3. Unlike "religious thinking" which often suppresses free-thinking and challenging the status quo, one of the highest guiding principles of science is to actively challenge the current mainstream thinking. Yes, scientists are human beings and are as vulnerable as any of us to reject ideas that challenges their views. But the system - the set of principles and practices to which scientists commit - acts as a powerful corrective to such biases.
4. There is no plausible motive for scientists to misrepresent the age of the earth. If there were moneyed corporations who had a vested interest in the idea of a young earth, and if they were the ones funding the scientists, then perhaps you would have a case. But to suggest that they are all dedicating their lives to disproving the specifically fundamentalist take on the book of Genesis is, again, wildly improbable.
Then do tell us why it is so easy to present evidence that the earth is young?
Why can I ask questions such as....if the BB happened, then why do the close galaxies look like the galaxies 12 billion LY's away? Those far away galaxies should appear as much younger.
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