The second group, which your John sounds like, uses magical thinking to explain it all away. Satan planted all the fossils to confuse us, whispers in the ears of scientists who say our actions have affected the climate, and is generally responsible for anything else they don't want to acknowledge.
It appears Eric Metaxas (another crazy Christian fundie guy) does believe in fossil evidence, but he somehow thinks that it DISPROVES evolution/"Darwinism" somehow.
http://cnsnews.com/commentary/eric-metaxas/evolution-just-got-harder-defend
http://archive.md/7tyLd