I think your admiration for creationists is severely misplaced. These people are honest neither with themselves nor with others, and I find their attacks on science to be extremely offensive.

As for your or anyone else's religious beliefs, I've said time and time again that I can respect them, as long as they are held privately and not used in any way to influence others to follow them. Explain your beliefs, great (very necessary, too), but that business of influencing others to follow the same beliefs is simply immoral. My bar for that immorality threshold is set very low. Telling young children that there is a God, making them attend faith schools and forcing them to worship by singing hymns and parroting prayers all fail my test abysmally, no matter how cosily they are wrapped up.

And it would help if you didn't tell me I needed a shrink, though I can take that.