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I don't make any such assumption. It is those who say that the Earth must be less than 20,000 years old who make the assumption that they know EXACTLY how and when God created the heavens and the earth.

In which case they would say that one cannot believe in Evolution AND God, in Geology AND God, or in Astronomy AND God. Because all three use scientific methods of measurement that push WAAAAaaaaaaaaay past 20,000 years.

It is those who say that the Earth must be less than 20,000 years old who make the assumption that they know EXACTLY how and when God created the heavens and the earth. In which case they would say that one cannot believe in Evolution AND God, in Geology AND God, or in Astronomy AND God.

It's even worse than that. Young Earth creationists can't believe in Nuclear Physics. Many, many different items within nuclear physics, such as sun fusion information, nuclear half life issues, on and on. I'd hate to disagree with these folks, who theorized they could build really big bombs by using their knowledge, and proved it by making them work.

YECers can't believe in simple mathematics. Because they don't believe the number of layers of sediment that you can count in deep mine shafts and well cores.

They don't believe in plate tectonics. Where we can measure how fast the plates are moving, and compute how long it took the plate to move from point A to point B. Or how long it took to raise the Himalayas, that we know are growing by a certain amount, and we know how high they are, enabling us to measure how long they've been growing.

Young Earth Creationists just have to throw out all of science. All of it. There's virtually no field of science that doesn't have some bearing, or method of measuring, how old the earth is.

All those fields of science agree almost perfectly with one another, which shows either a vast conspiracy, or they've got the right answer. While YECers and Christians have hundreds of different variations on their beliefs, meaning you can discount all of them.