You are confusing religion with science. Scientists who confuse religion with science are not quacks. They are wrong. Religion is not science and science is not religion.
BTW, I did not equate 'creation science' with 'quackery'. I said it couldn't be elevated to the same level as 'quackery'. Because it is trying to equate religion with science it is more insidious.
And finally, my belief in God has nothing to do with evolution or science. Science cannot prove or disprove the existence of God, a higher being, a prime mover, etc. And it doesn't it try to.
Unfortunately, for over 500 years, some adherents of some religions are always attacking science thinking that science is attacking religion. It does not and never has.
You are confusing religion with science No, I'm not.
Religion is not science and science is not religion
That is correct.
Science cannot prove or disprove the existence of God
That is correct as well, by definition.
Unfortunately, for over 500 years, some adherents of some religions are always attacking science thinking that science is attacking religion
That statement belies your anti-fact bias against creationism. The following is a partial list of "adherents to some religions" (Christianity) who were both scientists and creationists. Note that the "founder" of the scientific method was a creation science adherent. Note the names you've read in your textbooks showing up again and again....
Early
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Scientific method.
- Johann Kepler (1571-1630) (WOH) Scientific astronomy
- Athanasius Kircher (1601-1680) Inventor
- John Wilkins (1614-1672)
- Walter Charleton (1619-1707) President of the Royal College of Physicians
- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) Hydrostatics; Barometer
- Sir William Petty (1623 -1687) Statistics; Scientific economics
- Robert Boyle (1627-1691) (WOH) Chemistry; Gas dynamics
- John Ray (1627-1705) Natural history
- Isaac Barrow (1630-1677) Professor of Mathematics
- Nicolas Steno (1631-1686) Stratigraphy
- Thomas Burnet (1635-1715) Geology
- Increase Mather (1639-1723) Astronomy
- Nehemiah Grew (1641-1712) Medical Doctor, Botany
The Age of Newton
- Isaac Newton (1642-1727) (WOH) Dynamics; Calculus; Gravitation law; Reflecting telescope; Spectrum of light (wrote more about the Bible than science, and emphatically affirmed a Creator.)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (1646-1716) Mathematician
- John Flamsteed (1646-1719) Greenwich Observatory Founder; Astronomy
- William Derham (1657-1735) Ecology
- Cotton Mather (1662-1727) Physician
- John Harris (1666-1719) Mathematician
- John Woodward (1665-1728) Paleontology
- William Whiston (1667-1752) Physics, Geology
- John Hutchinson (1674-1737) Paleontology
- Johathan Edwards (1703-1758) Physics, Meteorology
- Carolus Linneaus (1707-1778) Taxonomy; Biological classification system
- Jean Deluc (1727-1817) Geology
- Richard Kirwan (1733-1812) Mineralogy
- William Herschel (1738-1822) Galactic astronomy; Uranus
- James Parkinson (1755-1824) Physician
- John Dalton (1766-1844) Atomic theory; Gas law
- John Kidd, M.D. (1775-1851) Chemical synthetics
Just Before Darwin
- Timothy Dwight (1752-1817) Educator
- William Kirby (1759-1850) Entomologist
- Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826) Geographer
- Benjamin Barton (1766-1815) Botanist; Zoologist
- John Dalton (1766-1844) Father of the Modern Atomic Theory; Chemistry
- Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) Comparative anatomy, paleontology
- Samuel Miller (1770-1840) Clergy
- Charles Bell (1774-1842) Anatomist
- John Kidd (1775-1851) Chemistry
- Humphrey Davy (1778-1829) Thermokinetics; Safety lamp
- Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864) Mineralogist
- Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869) Physician; Physiologist
- Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847) Professor
- David Brewster (1781-1868) Optical mineralogy, Kaleidoscope
- William Buckland (1784-1856) Geologist
- William Prout (1785-1850) Food chemistry
- Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) Geology
- Michael Faraday (1791-1867) (WOH) Electro magnetics; Field theory, Generator
- Samuel F.B. Morse (1791-1872) Telegraph
- John Herschel (1792-1871) Astronomy
- Edward Hitchcock (1793-1864) Geology
- William Whewell (1794-1866) Anemometer
- Joseph Henry (1797-1878) Electric motor; Galvanometer
Just After Darwin
- Richard Owen (1804-1892) Zoology; Paleontology
- Matthew Maury (1806-1873) Oceanography, Hydrography
- Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) Glaciology, Ichthyology
- Henry Rogers (1808-1866) Geology
- James Glaisher (1809-1903) Meteorology
- Philip H. Gosse (1810-1888) Ornithologist; Zoology
- Sir Henry Rawlinson (1810-1895) Archeologist
- James Simpson (1811-1870) Gynecology, Anesthesiology
- James Dana (1813-1895) Geology
- Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert (1817-1901) Agricultural Chemist
- James Joule (1818-1889) Thermodynamics
- Thomas Anderson (1819-1874) Chemist
- Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900) Astronomy
- George Stokes (1819-1903) Fluid Mechanics
- John William Dawson (1820-1899) Geology
- Rudolph Virchow (1821-1902) Pathology
- Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) (WOH) Genetics
- Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) (WOH) Bacteriology, Biochemistry; Sterilization; Immunization
- Henri Fabre (1823-1915) Entomology of living insects
- William Thompson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907) Energetics; Absolute temperatures; Atlantic cable
- William Huggins (1824-1910) Astral spectrometry
- Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) Non-Euclidean geometries
- Joseph Lister (1827-1912) Antiseptic surgery
- Balfour Stewart (1828-1887) Ionospheric electricity
- James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)(WOH) Electrodynamics; Statistical thermodynamics
- P.G. Tait (1831-1901) Vector analysis
- John Bell Pettigrew (1834-1908) Anatomist; Physiologist
- John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh (1842-1919) Similitude; Model Analysis; Inert Gases
- Sir William Abney (1843-1920) Astronomy
- Alexander MacAlister (1844-1919) Anatomy
- A.H. Sayce (1845-1933) Archeologist
- John Ambrose Fleming (1849-1945) Electronics; Electron tube; Thermionic valve
The Modern Period
- Dr Clifford Burdick, Geologist
- George Washington Carver (1864-1943) Inventor
- L. Merson Davies (1890-1960) Geology; Paleontology
- Douglas Dewar (1875-1957) Ornithologist
- Howard A. Kelly (1858-1943) Gynecology
- Paul Lemoine (1878-1940) Geology
- Dr Frank Marsh, Biology
- Dr John Mann, Agriculturist, biological control pioneer
- Edward H. Maunder (1851-1928) Astronomy
- William Mitchell Ramsay (1851-1939) Archeologist
- William Ramsay (1852-1916) Isotopic chemistry, Element transmutation
- Charles Stine (1882-1954) Organic Chemist
- Dr Arthur Rendle-Short (1885-1955) Surgeon
- Sir Cecil P. G. Wakeley (1892-1979) Surgeon
- Dr Larry Butler, Biochemist
- Prof. Verna Wright, Rheumatologist (deceased 1997)
- Arthur E. Wilder-Smith (1915-1995) Three science doctorates; a creation science pioneer