...and are doing serious scientific research attempting to support their beliefs.[emphasis added]
See, the problem is that those two emphasized things up there don't go together. Serious scientific research is not done to support someone's beliefs. That's what's known as crap science, junk science, or even lies.
The thing with "creation science" is that it operates by different rules than science does and measures success entirely differently.
Precisely why it isn't science! It measures success based on whether or not your results, when highly skewed, could be taken by a very biased mind to support some form of creation by some Being intelligent enough to be God.
Basically, "creation science" measures success by how convincing a claim sounds, not on whether it's the least bit true.
Err... that's even worse!
Well, I could go on, but it seems you hit the nail on the head
Thanks, d,
Jon