Word: creationists
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That is why the Kansas school board decision on evolution is so significant. Not because Kansas is the beginning of a creationist wave--as science, creationism is too fundamentally frivolous and evolution too intellectually powerful--but because the Kansas decision is an important cultural indicator...
They would find no creationist articles published in scientific journals, no research grants for creation science, and few university-level teaching positions for creationism...
Right-thinking creationists do not impugn evolution. What we reject is a universe that made itself out of nothing or is in eternal flux and presumes that we humans are little more than a strange fluke on the route to quantum mechanics. Pure evolution raises serious questions about such matters as justice, freedom and rights, for if there is no God, then, according to the principles of evolution, the more powerful must always win while the weak and inferior deserve to be trampled or eliminated. With the unqualified acceptance of evolution, the creationist concepts of perennial values of equality...
...children do have the constitutionally protected right to pray in school, individually or in groups, silently or aloud, as long as they don't disrupt classroom activities. But the wicked liberals still insist that we shouldn't be able to force them to pray. The liberals have also kept creationist pseudoscience out of our science class-rooms. Evolutionists already have the unfair advantage of scientific evidence. If we can't get creationism in, we cannot allow evolution to be put in our textbooks, because it gives evolutionists enormous influence. That would be like, say, allowing religious people...
Assistant Professor of Biology David A. Baum applauded the Pope's recognition of scientific evidence. "The Pope's statement is good, given the great creationist push in this country. [Creationists] can't turn their backs on the evidence," he said...