Pete- I see Steve Shaw picked on the same line that caught MY eye.

" i am sure that evolutionists are at least as much inclined to the practise as creationist researchers."

That, pete, is distorting how things work in the two different approaches. By definition, 'evolutionists' become evolutionists by their inclination to follow testable scientific progress wherever it leads; they do not simply believe it because someone in authority told them so. Now... once they are convinced that certain clear evidence leads them to accept evolution as a basic hypothesis, of course they do their studies & research within scientific realms.
When creationists suggest **scientific** evidence exists for their beliefs..(such as dino footprints near human fossils..etc.), that data is looked at and evaluated scientifically. So far, NO... that is... NONE of the suggested sites and data have stood up to rigorous examination! There are many ways to evaluate the dates and relationships between items found 'near' each other, and they all indicate millions of years between the last dinosaur and the first human.
(Some supposed 'evidence' has simply proved not to be 'footprints' at all, while other real footprints were shown to be in different geological eras.)

As to 'man/monkey'....it bears repeating that no one is claiming that somehow 'monkeys' changed into men.....it is not that simple. It IS claimed that men & monkeys (actually, apes) at some point had a common ancestor(s)..(and even THAT is too simple). DNA does prove that we humans are distantly...very distantly... related to the other higher primates. This in no way diminishes what we are...and if you wish to believe the God planned and designed the way it all worked, well... *shrug*.. fine.... but ALL the evidence indicates millions of years of complex lines of inheritance that produced US at the end of one line and apes at another.

Pete... you often note that 'some' folk with degrees in science can be found who doubt the evidence and believe very much as YOU do. I note that it is still possible to find some who believe the Earth is flat.