*Yawn* Need more coffee....

> there is no such thing as a dispassionate,impartial scientist

To be precise, there is no such thing as a perfectly dispassionate, impartial human being.

That includes creationists.

The real issue, however, is whose research and evaluation are, systematically, the *most* impartial, dispassionate, and therefore reliable.

Obviously scientists need not be "dispassionate" (in the sense of "unconcerned") when turning from their research to educate people about facts like AIDS and global warming, dangers like nuclear winter, or pervasive threats to education. The latter include all claims that creationism is a science and evolution is just a theory.