Physicists don't have their ideas attacked constantly by the Bible thumpers. Evidently, your average fundamentalist does not know enough about physics or chemistry to discern any threat to his or her world view. And, this is a conflict over worldviews; Creationists have a set picture of how the world should be ("God did it, 'nuff said") and science, as it advances, calls into question this worldview -- prompting the anti-science backlash by fundamentalists. You can see the same thing with the Taliban in Afghanistan. Much like the latter, the Christian fundamentalists are finding their views increasingly marginalized by progress. Whereas the Taliban strikes back violently, though, the average Christian fundamentalist attempts to pass laws banning the ideas he finds inimical, or rales against the progress sweeping his world away.
We see this increasingly on these threads. The Creationist arguments have become more strident as it has become clearer that their position has become more untenable. Often they use the same tired arguments which have been refuted time and again. That is one reason I came up with The Ultimate Creation vs. Evolution Resource -- so we wouldn't have to keep going over the same tired ground. Because the science is nearly irrefutable in regards to Evolution though, the creationists have now resorted to using the "Darwin is bad for society" tact. As pointed out in my previous post, this is the same tact used by the Taliban and fundamentalist Moslems in general.