How I wish I had those squidly tentacles of doom...

So I'm just going to link to PZ at Pharyngula for this post on the age of the earth. It's too well done and too good of a take-down for me to really try to add anything to it other than "Snaps!" and, perhaps, "Boo-yah!"

Ah, science. Helping people more closely approximate reality for over 300 years.