A few thousand years ago, more or less. Nobody is jumping up and down demanding that any of the variants of a Saturn thesis be taught as a fact in public schools at public expense, and a person could believe that the Earth was orbitting Saturn NOW and still make sense compared to evolutionists. Evolution stands everything we know about mathematics and probability theory on their heads.
Let's say, for the sake of debate, that evolution is total bunk and everyone accepts that statement.
How in the world does that make creationism (Adam & Eve, Noah's ark, woman coming from man's rib, talking snakes, etc) the leading scientific alternative or any viable alternative at all?
As many posters on this thread seem to assert, biblical creationism is entirely plausible and there is no need for proof because God works in mysterious ways beyond our understanding.