How do you think?

Apparently, somewhere in America, they've opened up a museum based on Creationist theories, according to which the Earth is only about 6,000 or so years old and man (that is, Adam and Eve) was there from the word go - or more precisely, from the sixth day. Now people have a perfect right to believe that if they so wish, but what it does highlight is the basic difference between an approach to history (or anything else for that matter) based on logic, and one based on belief. The logical approach is to examine what you find and what you can see, and then develop a theory based on that. If subsequent finds or observations contradict that theory, then you amend the theory accordingly. A belief-based approach on the other hand has the belief as its central core - this never changes, and facts and observations have to be fitted around it. If they cannot, they are either massaged until they do, or simply ignored. It's a matter of choice, but I know which approach I favour.