If you doubt this, consider the fact that all of the useful and practical knowledge derived from the theory [anti-microbial resistance, pesticide resistance etc] can be summarized as micro-evolution.
Micro evolution can be [and is] assimilated by either creationism or ID, so if all of the science establishment were to suddenly become born again Christians and begin to promote a young-earth world view, the sky would not fall, as medicine, biology, genetics etc., would proceed on as nothing ever happened.
Brian.
I can't throw out anything because I'm not a scientist...and I never forget that. I have only a rough understanding of most scientific theories and the evidence that supports them. When I pick up the leading journals and try to follow the evidence and arguments supporting or disputing competing theories I can't do it. I'm reduced to popularizations.
That being said I have no interest in attempts to present the Bible as science. Seems to me that what we're seeing now with evolution is pretty much a reply of what happened to the heliocentric theory three or four hundred years ago. Also the whole approach is wrong. Creationists are clearly motivated by a desire to prove the truth of the Bible rather than a desire to find a theory which best fits the facts.
Just my two cents as an ordinary citizen.