There's something magical about believing in evolutionary anthropology: a sense of numinous awe at how much they don't know but believe might be possible.
Astrobiology has yet to establish that it has a subject to study, but NASA is giving millions of tax dollars to multiple teams, including SETI researchers.
One would think, after so many decades, the secular scientists would come up with some original arguments for combating their favorite nemesis, the creationists.