I don't see why you're so surprised, Jody.

This is nothing new. Its been around since I was old enough to remember. And it is not limited to a few ignorant trailer-trash Yahoos in the Ozarks, this nonsense is part of an enormous fraction of the American population, and an enormous amount of money and effort is expended every year to indoctrinate children with it, to reinforce it in the minds of their elders, and to spread it to the rest of the population.

It is even spreading to other religions, both Catholicism and Islam, which used to be neutral when it came to science, are now developing creationist minorities. I don't know about the Jews, but I wouldn't be surprised. As much as I admire and respect the Jewish people, there's always been a minority of them who are crazier than bedbugs.

And now they are starting to mobilize and organize as a political force. Religious fundamentalism, and its political influences, are not limited to rural North American Protestantism. As we know, it is spreading like wildfire in the Middle East, and not only is religious conflict inevitable, conflict within religions will also play a role as competing faiths struggle for supremacy.

We've got a shitpot full of trouble on our hands.