[rickdylan]

Venus is the thing which keeps me from being a complete YEC. Venus at least appears to be ballpark for the sort of 6000 - 10000 year age which people used to deduce from biblical chronologies. Mars and Earth do not look like that and you’d assume they were significantly older.

[GodGunsGuts]

Food for thought (excerpt):

Conclusions and Implications

There is no longer any doubt that the surface of Mars has in the past been covered by huge volumes of water which spread over vast areas. These resulted from cataclysmic outflows, which were also responsible for catastrophic erosion of channels and valleys, on a scale far greater than anything comparable on Earth, and deposition of sedimentary strata. It appears that much of this water still resides near the Martian surface in permafrost and as ice. Mars has in the past also experienced huge volcanic eruptions and vast lava outpourings across its surface, perhaps on a greater scale than those on the earth.

There is an irony in the obvious parallels with the earth. Most geologists today vehemently oppose any suggestion that in the earth’s past there were cataclysmic outbursts of water that flowed catastrophically across its surface as the global Genesis Flood, even though planet Earth is still 70% covered in water. Yet they are equally adamant that the surface of nearby planet Mars has in the past been cataclysmically covered in water, even though most of its surface is now dry. However, the evidence on both planets is the same — landforms carved and sedimentary strata deposited catastrophically. Obviously their conclusions are based on a belief in uniformitarianism (”the present is the key to the past”), not the evidence which is consistent with the Bible.

http://www.icr.org/article/3151/

[GodGunsGuts]

Here’s another article I find very interesting re: YEC VS. DE dispute:

http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=261

[FoolNoMore]

“Venus at least appears to be ballpark... Mars and Earth do not look like that and you’d assume they were significantly older.”

I would like to respectfully say that you cannot know what a planet would look like at a particular age without making a great many assumptions.