Plimer, a professor of geology at the University of Melbourne goes to great lengths to expose him. On one occasion, with the help of a confederate, he tricked Snelling into writing that a 200 million year old rock contained paper. Plimer claims he wasn't being unfair since he left all sorts of clues in the cover letter he had his confederate write to Snelling's organization that the rock was a fraud. Of particular delight are the dozens of pages that describe the logistical nightmare Noah must of had in packing the ark. Any high school science teacher facing a convinced creationist student could pose these practical questions and dozens of others Plimer supplies.
Theology has no place in the science classroom, but problem solving certainly does.
Plimer, to his credit, distinguishes between mainstream religion, and the 'cult' of creationism. He spends a good part of the book analyzing the theological issues, and strongly suggests that creationism is as far removed from scholarly theology as from science. They argue that not only has light slowed down since creation but light was created only to appear to derive from a distant source. However, nowhere in the Bible do we read anything of such a paradox. Plimer is not satisfied in preventing creationists from hijacking science.