I listened to the Mars Hill interview with John Polkinghorne this morning. How 'bout that: one of the premier physicists of the century quit his tenured spot to go back to school and become a parish priest (Church of England)!
Unfortunately, I had many instructors who laughed at any creation "myth." We've seen far too many public media articles concerning the "meaning" of evolution, and I, at least, remember my science texts from high school that taught more about the primordial soup than about what an amino acid actually is.
The hostility came first. In fact, it was the hostility of Erasmus Darwin and Thomas Huxley - and then their Grandsons - toward a belief in God that started the absolute belief that science and religion are incompatible.
"Unfortunately, I had many instructors who laughed at any creation "myth.""
The idea that in the modern era someone could claim the the world is 10,000 years old and the earth was created word for word the way it is stated in Genesis is laughed at, I agree.
Much the same way my Baptist friends laugh at those who believe that when Jesus said to "take up the serpents" he meant to literally handle snakes.