Sorry, laddie, you've got it turned around. It is "creationism" (more specifically, "creation science") that is on the offensive against science and that is opposing science. All most of the "evolutionists" (just what
does that term mean, anyway? Most creation-science proponents I've asked absolutely refuse to offer any substantive definition, just as they refuse to define "evolutionISM" substantively) are doing is to defend science from creationists' false claims, ie to defend the truth.
I first encountered "creation science" circa 1970, very shortly after its own creation in the wake of Epperson vs Arkansas, 1968, in which four decades of anti-evolution "monkey laws" were struck down as unconstitutional. Specifically, from fundamentalist friends I heard: 1) there's scientific evidence supporting Noah's Flood, 2) radiodating is false since a living clam had been dated as thousands of years old, and 3) a NASA computer predicting the moon's orbit was run back through time and discovered Isaiah's Lost Day (ie, from when he command the sun to stand still). Fresh from high school and full of hubris, I dismissed the whole idea out of hand as ridiculous, especially that NASA computer claim (which, even back in those pre-Microsoft Dark Ages, I knew to be absolutely false because no computer could do what the claims said ... and I was absolutely right). Also at that time, my fundamentalist friend would get Chick Pubs tracts which I would read for fun, so I read the original, non-Hovind "Big Daddy?", which I gave no more credance than that other Chick-Pubs nonsense.
Then a decade later, in 1981, I heard of creation science for the second time when I saw flyers at the local university advertising a presentation to be given by some professional creationists from the ICR (Gish, I think it was). I was older now and more interested in open inquiry, so my reaction this time was, "Wow, they're still around. That must mean that there must be something to their claims after all." So I decided to read up on their claims and to check it out.
What I discovered was that the claims of creation science are false. Not only did they make unsupported claims, but they also regularly misquoted and misrepresented scientific sources, completely ignored any evidence that contradicted their claims (their claims of lack of fossil evidence being a classic example), and even fabricated evidence (bullfrog proteins, anyone?).
What really nailed it for me and revealed precisely what kind of people these professional creationists are was a televised debate on CBN. The creationist had stated that hominid fossils were "100% ape, nothing human about them." So the scientist displayed photographs of human, ape, and hominid fossils, all of which showed definite human and ape characteristics so that you could tell immediately which you were looking at, and then the hominid fossils whose characteristics were either obviously intermediate between ape and human or else had
both human and ape characteristics. The example of the latter case was the pelvis, which was viewed from two angles (all three pelvises were so viewed, BTW): from the one angle the hominid pelvis had the distinctly human characteristic and from the other angle the distinctly ape characteristic. The creationist's rebuttal was to focus only on the ape characteristic and completely ignore the human characteristic and loudly proclaim the hominid pelvis to be "100% ape, nothing human about at at all!" That was when I realized what "creation science" is all about. And everything I've seen come out of "creation science" since then only confirms what I had observed.
So what do I argue for? That if someone really believes that they must oppose evolution, then they need to do so
honestly and truthfully. That the use of lies and deception to defend and support Christianity is morally wrong, counter-productive, and destructive. And in response to my arguing for truthfulness and honesty, creationists absolutely oppose me and villify me unmercilessly. And, I believe, that also demonstrates clearly what "creation science" is all about.