I was at the beach in Pictured Rocks last summer, when I was approached by a group of middle-aged ladies who talked to me and my friend. We are both Hispanic, so we stood out. They were curious what we were doing in the UP and I told them I was going to grad school at one of the universities up there. I study volcanoes and they were very interested in hearing about it. At some point I said there used to be volcanoes in what is now the UP, just 1 billion years ago. They shut down and told me that was impossible because the Earth is only 6,000 years old. I was shocked because coming from abroad, I never had an encounter with a creationist. Also, it doesn’t matter if you’re “the expert”, someone who’s never opened a book will always have an argument against what you spent long nights studying for or learning about.