[Thatcherite]

There certainly are many civil, reputable scientists who don't resort to shouting that disagree.

"shouting him down" was a metaphor. The number of scientists who disagree with evolution is a tiny fraction of the scientists in the world. The number of practicing biologists who disagree with the theory of evolution is a fraction of the tiny fraction. Kooks can be found to support any nonsense; 99% consensus rather than 100% consensus hardly indicates weakness of biology's unifying theory.

[dotnetfellow]

The number of scientists who disagree with evolution is a tiny fraction of the scientists in the world.

Of course that is not true, but it does reveal your faulty premise that it is the percentage of dissenters versus assenters that constitute the evidence. Whereas one would be so quick to mute the ID expert from the public fora and educational systems, they would turn silent as professors and teachers mingle concepts of punctuated equilibria, abiogenesis, speciation, etc allowing for no voice to accentuate the gaping holes in the ToE. It is the equivocation and duplicitousness of the militant proponents of the ToE that will be the downfall of it.