Christians and atheists: do you find this sad or encouraging?

I"m a Christian, and I don't believe in the young earth version of Creation. I believe in a version that both honors The Bible and scientific discoveries. One doesn't disprove the other. Still young earth creation is better than "evolutiondidit." If I were going to make an error, I would rather be wrong about the actual age of the earth and the cosmos, than wrong about how they came into being.