If we are correct, that fear is involved, then perhaps we should work on diminishing the fear and making it safe to curiously rather than defensively explore the scientists' positions.
"If we are correct, that fear is involved, then perhaps we should work on diminishing the fear and making it safe to curiously rather than defensively explore the scientists' positions."
I agree. The problem with your idea, which I have attempted at various times, is the theological basis from which the creationists derive all their science. It is not so much fear of science that drives them, but fear of going to H E double hockey sticks.
They have been told by their pastors they respect that the Bible means thus and such and that is all there is to it. If they depart from the pastor's opinions, they are first regaled with condemnation, then eventually shunned for their different ideas. You can see this in some of the posts to me.
When they find out I am a Christian pastor that does not agree with their pastor they go into "blackmail mode". "How can you be a Christian minister when you don't believe the inerrant word of God?", they bellow. So their fear entails their whole social network, most of their close friends and their respect in their community.
Thus, it is not the merit of a translation of the Hebrew in Genesis that convinces them. It is the fear of being alone that exerts the peer pressure for conformance in absurd positions, even among people who are otherwise quite intellegent and scientific. I have talked to several engineers who are convinced the Grand Canyon was formed like the Mt. St. Helens rills and rifts.
I have been refused consideration for various positions at some churches and agencies because I do not believe in the fantasy.