[watchin]

"All reputable scientists are creationists, because only creationists can be reputable, because creation is true."

You would ruthlessly ridicule any creationist who used your reasoning, and you would be right in doing so, because your reasoning is so silly.

[jlogajan]

You would ruthlessly ridicule any creationist who used your reasoning

It wasn't predictive, it was descriptive. If X is true, reputable people expouse X and disreputeable people deny X. That is a logically sound description. Whether you like it or not.

Evolution is correct. Therefore reputable scientists believe in evolution.