It's not a "Western" value set, it's a value held by the scientific community he is desiring to enter. In any case, scientists are a lot less dogmatic than you

It's not a "Western" value set, it's a value held by the scientific community he is desiring to enter. In any case, scientists are a lot less dogmatic than you seem to think. We willingly use theories as long as we get results, i.e. as long as the theories work. The point is that it's exactly there that Creationism fails. In that way, it's not "ignoring an absence of facts as long as you get results" and more akin to "ignoring an absence of results as long as they believe what they're doing". I don't think you can spin that any way that's positive -- sooner or later reality will bite back if that's how you go through life.