Creationism

The teaching of evolution in schools gives bible-thumping parents much to worry about. Evolution teaches us the process of speciation. Speciation is scary for those that view humans as being mini-gods (god created us in his image, not animals).  The main pillar in Christianity is the concept of a god creating everything (they don't worry about the details). They also view the most holy of holy things as being life, which they view as a supernatural phenomenon (outside the realm of science).

Evolution ruins the magic, evolution is the cruel 'big kid' on the playground telling all of the 'little children' that Santa Clause isn't real -- while evolution (and the 'big kid') statements are correct, one must feel pity for those small children whom lost some of their mindless and misguided wonder, the parents doing it just isn't quite as exciting for some perhaps (some might prefer not having the thought police, or a creepy guy with a beard watching them all the time). As George Bernard Shaw said "The fact that a believer is happier then a skeptic is no more to the point then the fact that a drunken man is happier then a sober one.".

Of course at some point we all need to grow up and leave childish fantasy behind, we need to stop living in fantasy and become productive members of society. But I suppose creationism is a fitting view for some -- fitting for those with big egos and small brains, fitting for those that can easily tune out reality and care little about the details. Creationists are those that claim evolution has so many holes, so many problems -- but on the other-hand claim that some all-powerful/invisible guy did it magically. And this god is as invisible as the invisible gnome giving you the finger right now (he's right behind you). For a creationist to claim that their "theory" (not the same use of the word 'theory' as in the case of 'the theory of evolution') is superior to due to the amount of holes/gaps in 'evolutionary theory', is worse then a person who morbidly obese, calling a starving Ethiopian child 'fat'.

But maybe I'm wrong, maybe science has been tricked by the devil, but why would God allow the devil to make a fossil-factory in the first place? And why would he not tell the victims of this deception the truth?  Maybe the purpose was to on one-hand fool the intellectuals (God hates dem smurt folk), but not the uneducated rednecks. The devil can't get anything past rednecks, they are way too keen for his mischief.