>>that is, so long as the debate is not declared “over” by those who have an agenda that has as its object something other than the truth!<<
So you are cool with phrenology, astrology and alchemy participating in the “marketplace of scientific ideas,” right?
Put them back in your toy box please!
How long do you think they would last if they threw their hat in the ring of the science? I should think that neither creationists or evolutionists have anything to fear from any of the long-since discredited disciplines you mentioned above.
Yeah, well, don't forget that phrenology, along with alchemy, was the accpeted science of the day.
It's kind of interesting that all the things that evos like to saddle creationists with have very little connection with creationism historically and don't in the present (except in the minds of those who wish to discredit religious belief and have no other weapons which they can use), but rather with the accepted science of the day.