If creation is the supernatural and outside the perview of science, as we are told so often on these threads, than scientists are overstepping the bounds of what they are qualified to speak on. They constantly tell us that science only deals with the natural but not with the supernatural and then they presume to make blanket statements on subject areas in which they admit ignorance.
Of course creation can withstand open debate, but open debate means not blowing off all your opponents agruments off as lies and myths before the debate even begins. Everything creationists say is summarily dismissed off hand as *not science* so there can be no debate.