They are very effective at it. They exploit hermeneutics by tying the Gospel to belief in YEC, and thus condemned the rest of us. This is their control. Believe this way, or be damned.
The usefulness and explanatory power of consensus science is no match to the fear of eternal damnation for oneself or those whom one evangelizes in AIGism.
The mechanism is already in place and humming along nicely. AIGism is a new, better organized cultic sect of christianity that has infected doctrinally-conservative, missions-minded evangelical churches all over the United States, which have long bee deeply invested in spreading the Gospel. Now its a different gospel enhanced with and undergirded by pseudoscience. I hear tell of elsewhere as well.
AIG has MUCH to answer for.