This whole tack just doesn't appeal to me. Science depends on freedom of thought and discussion, and the idea of ruling out certain ideas categorically just runs against my grain.
I do appreciate that the creationist agenda is advanced not in the spirit of free inquiry, but what is to be done in this case?
The renaissance and enlightenment ideals of scientific practice were those of a fraternal elite who sought to attract men of ability by the power and appeal of their exciting and revolutionary ideas.
In this they were phenomenally successful, and we all know the story. Their ideals were established as conventional wisdom and made the foundation for our technological society. Yet, the establishment of far-reaching results such as Evolution and Cosmology as socially mandated doctrine rests uncomfortably on the foundational ideals of science.
I still maintain that the best way to teach Evolution would be to place a copy of Darwin's Origin of Species at the top of a greased pole wrapped in barbed wire, and forbid it's reading.
Oh??
2 Corinthians 3:17
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.