LittleNipper
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Actually, what it comes down to and what happened, is that evolutionists tried to silence those that believed in the Bible by excluding them from public educational institutions. This was accomplished by encouraging the Federal Government to assume control of once privately owned institutions with promises of standardization and improved test scores ----- neither of which has resulted!If your faith requires you to reject science, and embrace lies you really gotta ask what kind of religion is that?
It really comes down to people who feel threatened by the idea that something in their holy book might not be literally true and if some of it is to be taken as allegory, them maybe all of it is allegory and then what? So they disregard science and when forced to deal with the science, they go through the mental gymnastics and make the science fit their world view. Even the handful of scientists who latch on to these groups will dismiss their own knowledge because it doesn't fit in with the Bible or the Koran or the Torah or what have you.
I'm reminded of the geocentrists, and yes, there are still some people that believe the sun orbits the Earth and not the other way around. One of them is a guy named Gerry Bouw. He has a PhD in Astronomy from Case Western Reserve University, but just disregards almost five centuries of astronomy and physics because it doesn't fit in with the Bible's viewpoints on astronomy. Even when forced to confront stuff like Galileo's moons and retrograde movement of Mars, they'll just make up bizarre ideas like a mishmash of Brahe and Aristotle so they can still have moons orbit Jupiter and Jupiter orbit the sun, but the sun still orbit Earth.
Geocentricity
http://galileowaswrong.com/
It wouldn't be so bad, but some of them are just really good snakeoil salesmen. They talk a good game and convince everyday folk that their viewpoints have some legitimacy. That comes down to a problem of not enough scientific literacy in this country, but those people fight tooth and nail to keep science out of classrooms, such as evolution, because of the threat it brings against their perception of the universe.