I wonder how much of that is people not expressing opinions that run contrary to the group consensus. Maybe you have young earth creationist friends who don't want to be mocked, and hide that belief.
I’m a Christian and I’d put myself in the young earth creationist category. It never comes up and even if it did, I don’t feel the need to defend or justify it.
When it comes down to it, how God created the world is an implementation detail and arguing about it is missing the forest for the trees.
I have family that are young earth creationists, and the only way it ever came up is from a Noah's Ark with dinosaurs picture book they had around their house when me and my cousins were kids. It just isn't a topic that comes up often; especially not with co-workers or acquaintances.
Young earth creationists believe that dinosaurs coexisted with people? I thought they believed that dinosaurs never were alive and bones were tricks of the devil.
Maybe some? But even people who believe outlandish things try and fit them into some rationalized framework. The young earth creationism I'm aware of is big into "disproving" fossil dates and equating dragon myths to human accounts of dinosaurs before extinction. And looking for evidence of Noah's flood, of course. That ones a given for anyone trying to prove any sort of Biblical Literalism.
