Abstract
The subject of this article the questionable commitment of anti-creationists to standard levels of scientific integrity. When the modern-day conflict over the creation-evolution issue began, it soon became apparent to the anti-creation wing of the evolutionary establishment that many creationists were qualified scientists who had made themselves careful students of the origins question. It was also apparent that the anti-creationists could never win this conflict on objective scientific grounds. Therefore, many anti-creationists began to attack the Institute for Creation Research (the most influential creationist organization), and its scientists through innuendo, distortion, and exaggeration. In their attacks they not only misrepresented various statements of ICR scientists but began to slander them personally. Creationist scientists were called "non-scientists," "muddy headed," "know-nothings," "flat-earthers," "charlatans," and many other degrading terms.