And, creationists have been trumpeting the downfall of evolution since about 25 years before Darwin's work was published. And, it ain't happened yet.
Now, unless you have some POSITIVE evidence for a particular non-Darwinian view (and by positive, I don't mean picking at evolution), then you really haven't got a dog in this hunt.
Darwinistic evolutionists have been waiting for decades for the "rotting corpse of Christianity" to fall of its own weight...
that has occurred either!
You said:
A scientist is one who uses the scientific method to learn about the world around him. There is no special definition of scientist for any one particular discipline.
I don't struggle with this definition. The problem lies with your associates in your idealogy/religion.
It is they who redefine a scientist, and say they don't have to debate other scientists because they "pontificate" that they are not scientists (despite practice or education credentials) unless they believe in evolution.
This, my friend, is defining away any debate...and is hiding...plain and simple.