[Das Outsider]

I think most creationists do acknowledge the Big Bang theory.

Not only acknowledge but accept. The Big Bang allows for a definite beginning of the universe. Prior to the discoveries made from, say, 1920 to 1965, static state theory held ground--it had to since implying a beginning implies that something began, and this would cede ground to theistic cosmology.

You see a good deal of such philosophical gymnastics today, too. Scientists, and the public, are painfully allergic to negative evidence at times.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

The static state theory was nuts!!

[fanfan]

Scientists, and the public, are painfully allergic to negative evidence at times.

Which negative evidence?