"It is alienating young people from science. It basically tells them that the scientific community is not to be trusted and you would have to abandon your principles of faith to become a scientist, which is not at all true," he said.
"alienating young people from science..." - You mean the way "evolution" has been alienating people of faith for many years now?
So basically that is a "yes" evangelical conservatives or anybody else who insists, despite evidence to the contrary, the bible is literally word for word true must become hostile to science.
But it does not help for science to become hostile back. Scientists need to recognize the combination of sincerity and fear behind the anti-science movement and act appropriately - by stressing that science doesn't claim to know how life originated and that nothing in science exclude the possibility of intelligent design.
On the other hand you don't compromise on know facts like the earth being billions of years old and more complex life evolving from simpler life.