YEC’s can apply for public funding the same way other scientists do. There’s nothing stopping them.
One problem YEC’s might have is that they would have to create testable hypotheses that include criteria for falsification. That’s an issue for YEC. This is probably why they don’t write research grants and submit them to funding agencies like all other research scientists do.
Not at all. The contention is that YEC is not science. It starts with the conclusion and then misrepresents facts in order to serve that conclusion. YEC also lacks falsifiability. As we have seen in many threads, no matter what we observe it will be twisted to fit YEC.
For example, what features would a fossil need in order for YEC’s to accept it as transitional between humans and a common ancestor shared with chimps?
What features would a geologic formation need in order to falsify the claim that the Earth is young and that there was a recent global flood?
I have yet to find a YEC who can answer these questions. That’s because YEC is not science. It is a dogmatic religious belief.
YEC’s assert that soft tissue can not be preserved over millions of years, and yet they have no evidence to back this claim. There is no evidence that they would accept as a falsification for this claim.