Unfortunately, there are a lot of wonderful christians and potentially wonderful scientists who are driven away from a rewarding career because of the beliefs they have been taught. Atheist and theist scientists alike do not like to see artificial barriers being put in the way of future scientists.
I really have to wonder how YEC’s view the scientific community. I think they would be quite surprised by the amount of camaraderie that actually exists between believers and non-believers within the scientific community.