Don't these people believe in elementary physics?

Creationism defies all kinds of science in manifold ways. If you claim that the world was created, what, 6000 years ago, then you have to admit that radio-carbon dating which identifies substances older than 6K years as nonsense.

So, creationists chuck physics out the window.

And geology.

And anthropology.

And ancient literature.

And archaeology.

Whoop! Out the window, it's all wrong!

Or is it that it is easier for ignorant people unwilling/afraid/unable to invest the hard work of examining reality to simply believe in magical stories? Is it a quick way for them to feel like they've got all the answers, to put themselves above brainy and intimidating academic and scholarly types, to dismiss all the complicated systems that they cannot understand and hide their ignorance?

Gee if only those scientists and biologists would just become born again, they too could have their brains washed of reality and liberated from the scientific method. Everything would be so much easier.