Nosy Ned wrote:
As noted above this is the method used by firmly believing Christians too. And the majority of Christians accept it as a way of finding things out about the material world...
Actually ALL Christians, Creationists included, accept the method as a way of finding things out about the material world. It's just that Creationists find some bizarre way of distinguishing where it is applied to many things they take for granted, like telecommunications, transport, construction, modern medicine (in some cases), from where it is applied to those areas of science that conflict with their particular religious views.
The scientific method applied is the same, so how do they distinguish?