Are you a Creationist?

There has been lots of stuff in the media about Creationism and Creationists.
Last week The Rev Professor Michael Reiss, a Church of England Cleric, a biologist and Director of Education at the Royal Society, provoked a furore when he called for creationism to be treated in science lessons as a legitimate “world-view”.
“The demi-god of atheism, Prof Richard Dawkins, weighed in to say that he would wish to see the Royal Society "attack creationism with all fists flying". I presume he's speaking metaphorically and not actually advocating violence,”
said George Pitcher in the Telegraph Online

I, as both a scientist and a Christian, find this debate so frustrating because I see little level headed wisdom from either side.
This week Dawkins claims that ‘the majority of Christians’ hold creationist beliefs clearly this is not the case

Creationists believe that the world was created in seven days as it says (or as they say it says) in the opening verses of Genesis. Some of them believe each of these ‘days’ to be 24hr days others see them as representing 7 eras in the unfolding story of creation.
In my mind and that of most scholars of the Hebrew Bible these people have a totally misguided understanding of what the opening books of our bible are about. The writer(s) of Genesis 1-11, whoever they were, never set out to tell the “what” of creation rather they wished to explain the “why”.
As a scientist I never fail to wonder at the majesty and mystery of God’s created world. I see nothing incompatible with me holding to the theory of Evolution or studying the answers to what happened 15 billion years ago at the dawn of the universe and my belief that God is my creator and that Jesus of Nazareth is my God and saviour.. I am desperate to know what will be discovered about the so called “God particle” by the use of The Hadron Collider that was switched on a few days ago. The more I discover about sub atomic particles and the make up of nature the more I believe in a creating purpose and the more I see the Mind of God.

As to whether creationism should be discussed in the class room I doubt if the correct place is in the science lab; perhaps the religious and moral studies department is better placed. . I with Reiss admit it is a ‘world view’ that has to be engaged with alongside more liberal biblical views and those of the humanist school of thought.
I am concerned with the increasing attention given to Richard Dawkins and those who hounded Reiss from his job.

Pitcher concludes the discussion better than I can

“Where did this intolerance come from? When the Royal Society was founded in the 17th century, scientists were up against the bigotry and intolerance of a religious hegemony. Now the ideological boot is on the other foot.
Like all fundamentalism, scientific bigotry, I suspect, springs from insecurity. The postmodern secular experiment hasn't carried all before it, as its leaders had hoped. That has made the extremists frustrated, angry and intolerant. But, in pandering to them, the Royal Society has abandoned its core ethos and should be thoroughly ashamed of itself.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/09/18/do1802.xml