A Christian with a persecution complex never wins anyone to Christ. The motivation of the evolutionist is religious in nature, not scientific. His doctrine is that man is the highest ascent of the struggle of evolution, and that he's the master of his own destiny. An illustration of this was a quotation I saw on a chemistry professor's office door which said that if a student told him he wanted to go into the study of science to better mankind that he would advise him rather to go into charity. Science needs egotists, true egotists, who love science strictly for its own sake.
Scientists have a tendency to be enamored with the scientific method.
Theories or facts that conflict with that idea are pushed aside. The reason uniformitarianism became popular was not because of the scientific evidence, but that it is a convenient way to push God as far away in space and time as possible. Theistic evolutionists try to retain a mechanistic view of the universe, created and set in motion by God, then abandoned. Atheists push God out of the picture entirely. These he owes to no one but himself, and it is to himself that he is responsible.