"The following clocks point to a young earth, solar system, and universe. Taken together, they suggest that the earth is quite young — probably less than 10,000 years old.

22. Helium and lead in Zircons
6,000 years"

http://www.earthage.org/youngearthev/evidence_for… Moon:

Jeff says: "However, the aspects of modern biology were not understood in the 1800's. Now that they are understood, many US students are unable to compete in the world because they are being told that they should ignore evidence. "

I know of no concepts of biology that cannot be understood apart from evolution. Biology is a study of living organisms in the present which can be observed and tested, and experiments can be repeated on living organisms in the present. Evolution is something that supposedly happened in the past and is not happening today, and it cannot be observed or tested, nor can experiments be conducted upon it in the present.

You are correct that students are being told to ignore evidence, but the evidence they are being told to ignore is the abundant evidence for creation. Most public schools will not tolerate an honest, objective evaluation of the evidence for and against evolution, or the evidence for and against creation.

Jeff also says: "The world is not less than 10,000 years old. You can shout that it is for your entire life, but it is simply nonsense."

The methods used to arrive at dates of millions or billions of years for the age of the earth, such as radiometric dating, are based on uniformitarian assumptions and have been shown to be unreliable when used to test samples of known age, such as from the Mt. St. Helen's eruption in 1980.

"Many people think that radiometric dating has proved the Earth is millions of years old. That’s understandable, given the image that surrounds the method. Even the way dates are reported (e.g. 200.4 ± 3.2 million years) gives the impression that the method is precise and reliable (box below).

So, how do geologists know how to interpret their radiometric dates and what the ‘correct’ date should be?" http://creation.com/the-way-it-really-is-little-k…

However, we do have 22 chronometers that indicate the universe is much younger than evolutionists would have us believe. While based on certain assumptions to a degree, these are much more likely to be reliable because the shorter the time involved, the more likely that a specific process has been constant, and unaltered by external influences.

"A "clock" is any geophysical or astronomical process that is changing at a constant rate. Clocks may be used to estimate how long a process has been going on for. All clocks (including radiometric ones) require the use of at least three assumptions. These are:

In each of these cases it is not possible to prove that the assumptions are true. For example flooding can greatly alter sedimentation rates, and with clocks over 5,000 years old, the original conditions cannot be known with certainty. Therefore scientists must make a guess with regard to what they believe the original conditions might have been. The shorter the time involved, the more likely that a specific process has been constant, and unaltered by external influences."

Maybe not directly, but the Bible and its moral and spiritual concepts was found in numerous early textbooks of the 1800's:

"The following books were used extensively in America's public schools throughout the United States. These books contained numerous scriptures from the Holy Bible and many references to God, Jesus Christ, sin and salvation. These public school textbooks plainly show that generation after generation of American children were educated in Biblical morals and the Christian religion was at the foundation of their learning.

The Elementary Spelling Book, 1908"
http://www.angelfire.com/la2/prophet1/educationam…

I agree that educational standards in the past were more rigorous than today. However, the aspects of modern biology were not understood in the 1800's. Now that they are understood, many US students are unable to compete in the world because they are being told that they should ignore evidence.

The world is not less than 10,000 years old. You can shout that it is for your entire life, but it is simply nonsense.

For example, here is a link to an 1895 8th Grade Final Exam which I guarantee that modern U.S. high school students could not pass (and I doubt I could either): http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-spine/79470/1895-8th-…

Here are some sample questions (and notice that no knowledge of evolution or old-earth ideology is needed):

"This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salina , Kansas , USA .. It was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, and reprinted by the Salina Journal.

1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic orthography, etymology, syllabication?
2. What are elementary sounds? How classified?
3. What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals?
4. Give four substitutes for caret 'u'.
5. Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e'. Name two exceptions under each rule.
6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: Bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, super.
8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: Card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.
9. Use the following correctly in sentences, Cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.
10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication." http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-spine/79470/1895-8th-…

Students of the 1800's could dance circles around modern students, and one of the main books used in their learning was, you guessed it, The Bible. Far too much time is wasted in modern schools on force feeding the students liberal-approved topics like sex education, homosexual indoctrination, global warming hysteria, secular ideas of origins, revisionist history, self esteem, etc. etc. rather than actually giving them an education and equipping them to think for themselves.

America has received scores around 500 on a scale that goes up to 1,000: 487 in math, 500 in reading and 502 in science.

The AFP reports,
The three-yearly OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) report, which compares the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds in 70 countries around the world, ranked the United States 14th out of 34 OECD countries for reading skills, 17th for science and a below-average 25th for mathematics.

One of the aspects that occurs when you teach your children that fantasy is reality is that they fail to learn how the world actually operates. Creationism and a belief that the world is less than 10,000 years old tries to teach children not to believe evidence.