Maybe, if one of them did something like you suggest, they could unite themselves scientifically and finally produce a theory that could receive some serious attention in scientific journals. I personally think they should scrape up the funds and go for it. I would await their results with great anticipation.
The closest I've seen to creationists actually doing research is the RATE group. With somewhere over a million dollars in creationist money a group of scientists who are also creationists tried to disprove radiometric dating thereby supporting their young earth belief.
Here are two reviews of the project results:
Assessing the RATE Project: Essay Review by Randy Isaac:
Assessing the RATE Project
Do the RATE Findings Negate Mainstream Science?:
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One of the concluding paragraphs from the first review:
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In this book, the authors admit that a young-earth position cannot be reconciled with the scientific data without assuming that exotic solutions will be discovered in the future. No known thermodynamic process could account for the required rate of heat removal nor is there any known way to protect organisms from radiation damage. The young-earth advocate is therefore left with two positions. Either God created the earth with the appearance of age (thought by many to be inconsistent with the character of God) or else there are radical scientific laws yet to be discovered that would revolutionize science in the future. The authors acknowledge that no current scientific understanding is consistent with a young earth. Yet they are so confident that these problems will be resolved that they encourage a message that the reliability of the Bible has been confirmed.
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Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.