JimSea: “It’s very frustrating because the young earth types will scurry back to their creationist web sites rather than listen to anything you say...”
I “get” all that, have long argued that they are perfectly entitled to believe whatever they wish, so long as they don’t call their religious beliefs “science” or pretend to judge science they don’t like (I.e. “historical sciences”) as somehow “not science”.
By US law, science is what scientists say it is, and it certainly includes assumptions like naturalism and uniformitarianism.
If **some people** don’t like it, that’s fine, but they can’t just define it away.
As for their arguments themselves, those are all easily answered, by anyone with time and patience to devote — time I sometimes do have, but not always.
My opinion matches yours. They have a right to their beliefs but not to their facts.
You keep repeating this most ridiculous statement:
“By US law, science is what scientists say it is.”
It speaks volumes about your background and intelligence.