Nye or Neil deGrasse Tyson can do the job. So what it if it appears to be grandstanding? It won't give any less legitimacy to science and it might actually introduce the bleary-eyed followers of creationists to the idea of what science really is. Truth as scientists (and much of the rest of the thinking world) knows it.

Through the "equal time" policy of many news stations (mostly television) the press has been giving great press to tiny players, treating them as equals in news debates because they think they have to always have the opposition there to argue the other side, even if the opposition they find is a puny lunatic fringe entity amounting to nothing. That single policy of "balance" has in fact created a great deal if imbalance. Go ahead, Bill Nye, shine your Fresnel light of science on the idiocy of creationism.

SRS