Even the strangest member may have a contribution to make over the long haul. The old Lamarckism that was popular in the early 1900's and with which the Communists raved about has been completely debunked. Lamarckism was an attempt to bring back intelligent design from the 1700's and early 1800's. What I have read of Creationist literature indicates to me that the Creationist's main function is to try an discredit evolution. They do not seem to have any explanatory power that can be evidentially verified as an alternative to evolution.
Theories are still open to falsification, but have stood the tests of time.
The number of members these resources will support is more or less constant. N is constant. These 2 factors are working against each other. As I did, he used to teach Physics and Math. Imagine, George, in Physics not being allowed to teach radioactive dating, or the evolution of the stars, solar system, galaxies, or that light takes billions of years to reach us from some parts of the universe.