My question I guess is, why are YEC's fighting the ToE?
Here is my understanding. I don't have a reference, so it could be wrong.
My understanding is that a small group of evangelicals noticed that students were going into undergraduate biology class as evangelical Christians, and coming out as atheists. They then devised the YEC cult to counter this.
Four possibilities:
I'll suggest another.
5) Most YECs are highly gullible people, who are easily led astray by fancy rhetoric.