"I guess if creationists actually started turning out real science, they could qualify for public grants, too. Remember, not all research is carried out on the public dime; a lot of it is privately funded. Creationists evidently have a pretty decent well of funds they can go to to fund their research -- if they actually wanted to do any research, which we know they don't."
Actually they do their own research. They don't need to coerce people through taxes to fund it as evolutionists do. If evolutionists didn't have taxpayer dollars few would fund their nonsense. Creationists aren't hurting for money, research or truth as evolutionists are.
They do research? Do you have links to any of their published, peer-reviewed papers?
Other than studying the Bible, what research have creationists performed?
Creationists aren't hurting for money, research or truth as evolutionists are.
Creationists have access to money because there is a large pool of uneducated, ignorant, gullible people who are associated with talibornagain religious denominations. You can make such buffoons give money to pretty much anything. As for research and truth, as has been shown hundreds of times on these threads, creationists do no research and provide no scientific evidence for their claims.
By pushing the teaching of creation as some Christians see it in the public schools, Creationists are indeed using taxpayer dollars. Creationists are also using them in funding these pseudo-debates, legal actions and so on.
There are not a whole lot of scientists from India, China or Japan opposing evolution. They have their own journals to publish in, so if there was a real case, we'd see some fascinating articles from one of these places.
Accepting Creation as an act of faith is an honorable thing. Pushing pseudo-science is not.