Evolutionary biologist Nick Gotelli refuses to debate someone from the Discovery Institute:
Academic debate on controversial topics is fine, but those topics need to have a basis in reality. I would not invite a creationist to a debate on campus for the same reason that I would not invite an alchemist, a flat-earther, an astrologer, a psychic, or a Holocaust revisionist. These ideas have no scientific support, and that is why they have all been discarded by credible scholars. Creationism is in the same category.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/02/when-scientists-get-pissy/205352/
