Young Earth Creationism Vs. Science (Statler Waldorf Contd)

[Lethe]

As to Evolutionary Theory being an important factor in making scientific predictions, the viewpoint is a total farce. It’s a religious belief system that is far too flexible to have real relevance to modern day science.

I'm curious as to how you would define "religious" in this context.

“While the great majority of biologists would probably agree with Theodosius Dobzhansky’s dictum that “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution”, most can conduct their work quite happily without particular reference to evolutionary ideas”, the editor wrote."

This so reminds me of Kirk Cameron's "If you circumnavigate the intellect, the subject of evolution seems to disappear" statement.

For clarity's sake:

Let’s see if any creationists actually contributed anything that is used still today…

Francis Bacon
Gerardus Mercator
Galileo Galilei
Johann Kepler
Blaise Pascal
Robert Boyle
Isaac Newton
John Dalton
John Kidd
Joseph Henry
James Joule
Gregor Mendel
Louis Pasteur
P.G. Tait
Alexander MacAlister
George Washington Carver
Nicolae Paulescu
Richard Porter
William Ramsay
J Rendle-Short

Bolded are the scientists who lived before the publishing of The Origin of Species in 1859. Italicized signifies an old Earth creationist. Underlined are those who lived through the early introduction of evolutionary theory, before the advent of genome sequencing (completion of the human genome in 2000) and radiometric dating (1960s). The remaining two are doctors, not scientists.