Long story short: creationists are whores for publicity; it gives them prestige to further dupe their marks. (These would include the customers to Hamm's little "The-Flintstones-Is-A-Documentary" museum.)
The scientists get nothing out of it but the flim-flam men, like Hamm, get notoriety. They use that notoriety to scam little old ladies out of their pension checks and to push to get school boards to spread their filthy creationist/ID lies to children.
Wow!! The hostility is fantastic. It reminds me of when feminist law students would go ballistic and resort to mere ad hominem attacks when their view points were criticized. I love it.
Anyway, it is amazing that creationism is now viewed as "filthy". What is filthy is when children are taught that they are nothing more than highly evolved animals. We certainly can't expect them to behave in any other way when that is what they think they are. But I really don't think actual debate is going to happen here anyways.