Thanks for the links Anton!
I can see your point, Nathanm. You think all creation scientists have some hidden agenda.
Umm, no I don't recall saying that. Besides, their agenda is far from "hidden"; heck, they've got it plastered right at the top of the page! "Upholding The Authority Of The Bible From The Very First Verse" or "A Christ-Focused Creation Ministry" - it's clear these are not seekers of 100% objective proof, at the root these are people who have accepted a foregone conclusion and are operating within the confines of their faith. At least there's only 50 of these guys...
Now try to follow my logic.
Sorry, but as an atheist I can't follow something that doesn't exist!
(JOKE)
Some people did not like the idea of any supreme being above them, stipulating some laws they had to follow. They did not like to follow biblical moral rules. They wanted to do what they wanted to. But as they were quite educated, they felt to be able to justify their desires / deeds. So, dispite all the evidence, they've come up with evolution theory. Now one can do whatever he wants to, the end is...
Despite what evidence? The Genesis chapter in the bible? (With that kind of logic the Harry Potter books are evidence of wizards, witches and trolls! Ha!) You're suggesting
evolutionary theory was invented solely for the desire to rebel against religion? That Darwin had some vendetta against god?
Despite whatever personal delusions one may harbor, morals and ethics were not handed down by a supernatural being, they developed within mankind. Scientific theories are not created as a childish act of rebellion against religious dogmas, they are made by observing and desiring to understand the natural world. If anything other religions are made to counter unfavorable moral codes, not scientific theories.
The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mothers' milk. The theologians, with no such dualism addling their wits, are smart enough to see that the two things are implacably and eternally antagonistic, and that any attempt to thrust them into one bag is bound to result in one swallowing the other. The scientists who undertake this miscegenation always end by succumbing to religion; after a Millikan has been discoursing five minutes it becomes apparent that he is speaking in the character of a Christian Sunday-school scholar, not of a scientist. The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea, however fundamental it may seem to be, for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable. To be sure, theology is always yielding a little to the progress of knowledge, and only a Holy Roller in the mountains of Tennessee would dare to preach today what the popes preached in the Thirteenth Century, but this yielding is always done grudgingly, and thus lingers a good while behind the event. So far as I am aware even the most liberal theologian of today still gags at scientific concepts that were already commonplaces in my schooldays.
Thus such a thing as a truly enlightened Christian is hard to imagine. Either he is enlightened or he is Christian, and the louder he protests that he is for former the more apparent it becomes that he is really the latter. A Catholic priest who devotes himself to seismology or some other such safe science may become a competent technician and hence a useful man, but it is ridiculous to call him a scientist so long as he still believes in the virgin birth, the atonement or transubstantiation. It is, to be sure, possible to imagine any of these dogmas being true, but only at the cost of heaving all science overboard as rubbish. The priest's reasons for believing in them is not only not scientific; it is violently anti-scientific.
...it seems they were already hard at work cranking out pantheon after pantheon of deities.
Absolutely. And there will be more once the Christian, Islamic and other gods have worn out their useful life and are discarded by Man. But of course, even though gods and their religions come and go, the important thing is this: THEY'RE ALL
TRUE! 
Hooray!
