Salute to Brad, of course, for illuminating that particular dark corner of our respective universes...
Schraf, what if most creationists with scientific backgrounds believed that the accepted dating forms worked perfectly, that fossils were laid down over millions of years, etc.
What questions remain? Why would God put a beautiful physical framework in place, leave plenty of evidence for the age of the universe, and then rush it in 6,000 years?
I realize that you are asking some of the same questions, but i'm not sure that yec will ever allow for real, objective debate. Of course, if we all read Hebrew, there might have never been yec's...
But if God really did take the kind of time that we can measure cosmologically, then what other creationist questions do you have?