“There are people who believe that dinosaurs and men lived together. That they roamed the Earth at the same time. There are museums that children go to, in which they build dioramas to show them this. And what this is, purely and simply, is a clinical psychotic reaction. They are crazy. They are stone…cold…f***…nuts. I can’t be kind about this, because these people are watching The Flintstones as if it were a documentary.”

I love it when creationists bring up Dawkins’ mention of Panspermia in Expelled, because they consistently miss the point he was making.

Even if panspermia had occurred, we would still need to explain where the genetic seed material that arrived on Earth came from in the first place. Panspermia, even if real, is not an answer. It’s just one piece of a much larger puzzle.

But creationists seem prone to think that something that is not a “first cause” actually is. Which is why no one can ever explain where God came from.

Of course, as Ames pointed out, their inability to observe a creator in action is not in any way a weakness to their “theory” as said creator exists outside time or space. They want to have their angel food cake and eat it too.

“Embarrassingly, this “theory” cannot be scientifically observed in action today, nor can it be forensically observed in nature’s record of the past.”

is so ridiculous that I could hardly believe my eyes. While you are right to point out that there are many theories that we cannot observe directly, evolution quite definitely is one that we can, as biologists on a daily basis. And “forensically observed in nature’s record of the past” sounds very much like the definition of “fossils”.

There are some fine creationist scientists (not creation scientists). They just aren’t evolutionary biologists or paleontologists, or anthropologists et al.