There is an interesting book by Robert T. Pennock that lays out very clearly
the case and problems of "creationist science". The implications he lays out
for the teaching of all science if theistic views are allowed to enter into
the scientific ciriculum are frightening. I highly recommend it.
Robert T. Pennock, 1999, MIT Press
Tower of Babel. The evidence against the new creationism.
I will quote one section from his book below. There was a review of it in a
recent issue of Scientific American.
Scott T. Meissner
smeissne at aol.com
Aure Entuluva!
"Scientific naturalism, they say, is an arbitrary, metaphysical dogma, and a
relativistic, immoral, anti-Christian, atheistic dogma at that. They impugn
the intellectual and ethical integrity of any scientist who accepts and
teaches evolution, asserting that it is a false, evidentially unfounded
theory, and that science educators know this but promote it nevertheless as
part of their intentional campaign to defend their cultural power and to
attack the Christian religion. We cannot afford to let such accusations go
without a reply, for they fly in the face of the truth. I have tried in this
book to show why the creationists' arguments are philosophically unjustified.
I would also submit that their insinuations about the supposedly
anti-Christian motivations of scientists and science educators are similarly
unfounded."
- Robert T. Pennock, pg 371 of Tower of Babel -
