Before you decide to engage in a respectful exchange of views with a creationist, realise that the last intelligent, honest creationists died a century ago. What we see now are the dregs -- the folks who weren't clever enough to abandon the ship when it was sinking. Anyone who's still on that ship has either chosen to die on it or is trying to sublet their cabins to even dumber people, and they haven't noticed -- or are hoping others won't notice -- that the ship is, at this point, paradoxically, both underwater and on fire.