[A comment challenging a rationalist's account of a "creation science" conference that he had attended.]

A) Why should anyone believe Todd's story?

Anti-Creationists have been known to lie and misrepresent. They have also been known to spread those lies and misrepresentations.

and

B) Wouldn't we have to know how the Earth was formed before we could know when it is was formed?

We know that intelligent agencies can speed up processes. And given all the other factors that have to be in place just to sustain complex living organisms, who, in their right mind, would accept sheer dumb luck as an explanation over ID, just for our planet's existence? And if ID is the best explanation, and we know intelligent agents can speed up processes...