Do any 'leading/accomplished' scientists support young earth theory?

[popeyespappy]

Look Zeus, the thing you need to realize here is that most respectable science journals don’t publish blatantly creationist articles. For good reason I might add. Many of them don’t accept papers from outspoken young Earth creationists period even when their submittals aren’t blatantly young Earth. That’s going to make it hard for you to find what you are looking for in the peer reviewed journals.

It doesn’t however mean that people like Humphreys, Hartnett and Gentry aren’t qualified in their field. Neither has it stopped them from publishing their opinions in the popular press. Indeed many of the “science” based arguments for a young Earth you hear have their origins in the writings of these three men. Humphreys has his very own cosmological model that attempts to deal with the distant starlight problem. There are even current members of this forum that have argued for a young Earth using his hypothesis.

If you want to engage someone like Waldork or GC on the issue of young Earth creationism it certainly helps to familiarize yourself beforehand with both the arguments they might use and the rebuttals to those arguments. If you don’t then frankly they are going to hand you your ass on a platter. If you are going to reject even looking at what people like Humphreys has to say based on a preexisting and baseless bias that causes you to automatically reject what he says simply because he received his doctorate in Louisiana then, as I have said before, that puts you in the same category as the creationists. Humphreys’ hypothesis needs to be judged on its own merits not on your unfounded opinion of the worthiness of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at LSU.