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==It is really easy to spot the YEC adherents with the worst cases of self-imposed ignorance: they don’t know the difference between cosmology and biology (they refer [sneeringly] to both as “evolution”). And the really stupid ones confuse honest scientific endeavor with politics...

First, the Big Bang is based on ideology and politics. If you doubt me, bring it on.

Having said that, let me help you understand how the materialist-colored lense of evolution distorts science across many disciplines. If the Evos would just be honest and admit that their world view dictates their historical interpretations, then all would be fine. But they don’t do that. They pretend that their historical interpretations are the same thing as the observable, repeatable results of operational (as opposed to historical) science.

I can’t remember where I got this from, but it certainly speaks my mind:

Atheistic worldview

...A-theism, by definition, states foundationally that there is ‘no God’. All worldviews provide answers to the big questions in life like ‘Where do we come from?’ How do atheists explain our origins without God? Their answer is evolution. This gives them an explanation for our existence without God—naturalistically. Briefly stated the grand theory of evolution embraces the following.

Cosmic evolution
Billions of years ago time, matter and energy came into existence as the result of the ‘big bang’. Over billions of years the galaxies, stars and planets formed-—all by themselves.

Geological evolution
The earth started as a hot molten orb, eventually cooling down enough for water to condense and fill the oceans.

Chemical evolution
After some time the first self-replicating life form spontaneously generated from non-living chemicals.

Biological evolution
This simple organism became more complex over millions of years via genetic mutation and natural selection, ultimately producing all of the life forms that have ever existed on our planet.

Human evolution
Eventually ape-like creatures developed higher brain functions and humans evolved, forming societies and cultures that developed laws, religions and institutions like marriage. Evolutionists point to the geologic column and the fossils it contains as ‘scientific proof’ of these processes.

Heat death
Because the entire universe is subject to the laws of entropy, the future ultimately is ‘heat death’, where there will be no more available energy. No life will exist, and perhaps everything will collapse and begin all over again.

No ultimate hope
The atheistic worldview, based on this supposed history, says that we had an accidental beginning; we developed through random processes and that there is no ultimate hope for the future. It says that there are no absolutes, no basis for morality or ethics outside of what each person decides is right for themselves.

Atheism vs. theism is sometimes misrepresented as ‘science’ vs. ‘faith’. This is untrue because evolution is a worldview that is also based on faith. In fact, evolutionists and creationists have the exact same scientific facts to examine. There isn’t a scientific observation that a creationist would disagree with an evolutionist about. Creationists disagree with evolutionists conclusions because we do not agree with their starting presuppositions.

The real difference is that of the world history that each group believes in, by faith. Why by faith? Because we cannot travel back in time to see the first life form evolve or observe God create the universe. So our understanding of what happened in the past is ultimately accepted by faith. We can use scientific methods to observe evidence in the present, and then make an assessment of which history is best supported by that evidence.