What's up with creationism?

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Pool: If people keep it to themselves and don't hurt anyone, it's fine. Simply believing a fairy story about how the world came about probably isn't too harmful, if you don't force it on anyone else (although it's hard to believe this kind of irrationality isn't going to impact them in other ways.) Too many people refuse to keep it to themselves though for it to be ignored. Indoctrinating children with nonsense and trying to push it into schools is harmful. If more people had the balls to call it "their belief", and treat it as such, things would probably be fine.

Marssims: That is a real problem, yes. You can educate someone yet their indoctrination can fight back impressively against reason. Trying to force them to believe real things is just as bad as them forcing us to believe nonsense, so I suppose all we can do is to continue to educate people in general. Indoctrination seems to be getting generally weaker, the new generations more savvy and the internet is a trump card. It may just be a case of waiting for the hopelessly indoctrinated to die out and be replaced by more liberal types.