Really, folks, how plausible is young earth creation? About as much as flat earth belief, I'd say.
Zero.
Biblical literalists have spent the past three centuries struggling with plausibility. It was pretty tough when it became increasingly apparent the Earth was not the center of rotation of the solar system. Despite burning a few people for heresy, they had to concede that astronomy won out over theology.
When the battle lines were formed for the war against geology and it's nephew, evolution, they no longer had to political power to burn people alive, but they could shoehorn whatever was found on the surface of the planet into their creation scenario. It was easy to say that an isolated 20 ton boulder 20 miles down hill from a mountain where the same rock was found, was evidence of the Flood of Genesis. That had been the explanation for obviously ancient landscapes for several thousand years.
Year by year, plausibility had to be squeezed like Clarence Darrow's sponge until there was nothing left. These days, plausibility requires suspension of the observed natural laws. Time spans have to be telescoped because all of this has to fit into 5 or 6 thousand years.
In 2021, there is no plausibility to Young Earth Creation. What is presented is a poorly considered scenario in which physical aspects of the planet are matched with details from Genesis. At this point, the only part where YEC and science agree, it that the Earth was created.
