What's more amazing is that a small subset comprised solely of evangelical creationists have convinced themselves that the entirety of the scientific studies of geology, paleontology, biology, and cosmology, are all completely wrong by huge orders of magnitude.
Even the 9/11 Truthers, Moon Hoax people, and Ancient Alien peddlers snicker at a 6,000 year old Earth.
I think it is due to fundamental flaws in the subject of Christian science and how biblical Christians attempt to interpret and explain science phenomenon. The creationist in this debate was lucky that Nye is rather bad science debater who quite possibly couldn’t even beat creationist who argued that the earth was created when an ancient Roman God got sick and vomited it up.
The unfortunate truth is that the state of Christian science one reason why conservative, traditional Christians find themselves on the losing end of numerous key social issues. And why Christian science is indeed in dire need of improvement.