[DittoJed2]

It makes sense if you want to be heard by "the establishment" and others won't allow you to and keep using your lack of publications in "respectable" journals against you.

Others have been fired for teaching creation, even at the University level. The field is not open for ideas.

[Ichneumon]

Others have been fired for teaching creation, even at the University level. The field is not open for ideas.

"The field" is open. Classrooms, however, are not "the field".