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[Aegrus]

It would not be foolish to postulate an alternative beginning to our species and reality itself- it is foolish to blindly claim without evidence that an ancient book which makes no scientific sense holds the answers you're looking for.

Now, as for the equation, I hold a different view. I wouldn't solve with the varaibles, or eliminate them. I'd try to figure out what they were before I solved it. As scientists are doing. Your comparison is flawed, because the numbers and variables in that equation are merely random, whereas in reality, we have the means to find the "variables", the variables being knowledge of the physical world.

Fundies, on the other hand, seem to think that if we don't have the answers as this moment, we never will, so why bother? That's one of the many things that makes them dangerous.

Now, as for why believing in unicorns would make you terrible at quantum mechanics- it would not, as long as you searched in an unbiased way for evidence and employed scientific method correctly. However, most creationists skip large chunks of the scientific method and use their god as justification to jump to conclusions without proof. That is obviously detrimental to knowledge, reason, and society itself.