It was some 24 PHD's who wrote the book. The current evolution establishment is not debunking this on it's merits, they are simply trying to get it banned because it contradicts the established view.
You are of course right, Danny, but you may as well save your fingers and your mind from trying to get the evolutionists here to see the obvious, common-sense reality in play. Evolution cannot withstand genuine scientific debate, so its proponents instead rely on attacks and laughter to discredit the messengers. Some will throw a page of links at you to support their side, but it's all the same regurgitated bunch of circular reasoning and wild assumptions that would be laughed at in any other scientific discipline.
It's ironic that you see the behavior across all political persuasions, when you consider how virtually every person here also decries the exact same practice from liberals who forbid any real discussion of certain issues. For example, when's the last time you heard a real discussion on racial issues? You don't. Anyone who attempts to start an honest dialog is immediately shouted down by the opposition, laughed at, trivialized, scorned, labeled a bigot. This is a common methodology when their side of an issue is dogmatically adhered to and can't withstand the light of reason.
Fact is, these people have bought wholly into the "wisdom" of a few men, accepting it as incontrovertible truth, over the Word of God, even though the Word makes infinitely more sense. They're blinded by Satan; they're the classic scoffers the Bible warned about when God dictated it a couple thousand years ago. Here's a passage from 2 Peter (NLT). See if it seems relevant:
First, I want to remind you that in the last days there will be scoffers who will laugh at the truth and do every evil thing they desire.
This will be their argument: "Jesus promised to come back, did he? Then where is he? Why, as far back as anyone can remember, everything has remained exactly the same since the world was first created."
They deliberately forget that God made the heavens by the word of his command, and he brought the earth up from the water and surrounded it with water. Then he used the water to destroy the world with a mighty flood.
Quite prescient, eh? Of course, The Bible always is. I've given up any attempt to discuss this issue with the other side. I should pray more for them, though. Satan's hold is so strong now that it blinds even Christians and causes them to do the work of the enemy, discrediting the Bible, trying to force it to conform to the "wisdom" of flawed men, instead of accepting what God has to say on the issue. Pray for them, and remember: Just as you and I will, every single scoffer here and everywhere, will kneel before Jesus Christ and give an accounting.
MM