> Based on the response to these few words, as outlined in the article, it appears that evolution is not open to criticism.
Sure it is. It's when you lie, as this feller has done, that people tend to get snippy.
Read the literature: evolutionary biologists and paleontologists are forever sniping at each others theories. But while there's considerable debate, discussion and criticism over various aspects of evolutionary theory and evidence, there is as yet no scientific criticism of evolution as a whole. Just as planetary scientists snipe at each other regarding this aspect of Martian geology or that, they don't debate that Mars is *there*.