[Mrs. Don-o]

"They peppered Dr. Durkee with questions about everything from techniques for dating fossils to the second law of thermodynamics ... Dr. Durkee [needed] advice on ways to deal with visitors who reject settled precepts of science on religious grounds."

Radioisotope dating and thermodynamics are "religious grounds"? And I suppose Michael Behe's line of microbiological questioning about the origin of subcellular organelles is the equivalent of Deuteronomy?

I don't have a dog (or a dogma) in this fight, but it sometimes seems to me that the Creationist Young Earthers just supply the straw man targets the docents need, to avoid the critical science guys like Dembski and Behe.

[Right Wing Professor]

Radioisotope dating and thermodynamics are "religious grounds"?

Nobody said they were.

I don't have a dog (or a dogma) in this fight, but it sometimes seems to me that the Creationist Young Earthers just supply the straw man targets the docents need, to avoid the critical science guys like Dembski and Behe.

Dembski isn't a scientist; he isn't even much of a mathematician. And few of us have any compunction about criticizing Behe's 'science'. We had tons of fun with his allegedly 'irreducibly complex' systems.