Backwards nation

[Aroura]

First - what obsession? I rarely post on it. The largest Christian church rejects it. Sure, out of a couple billion people you'll get some who focus on it, but overall it's a peripheral issue.

Second - back at you. Why the atheist obsession (if it is that) in creationism? We get lots of unsupported assertions that evolution and age of the universe are vital for all science, but as we've seen, no one can back that up with numbers. On another board an atheist actually said, "If the monkey's not your uncle, the plane doesn't fly." Seems ludicrous to me. Do you think it's impossible for someone to learn aerodynamics if they're a YEC?

It's not a "peripheral issue", in 31 states creationists are trying to pass laws to get it taught in schools alongside evolution as an "alternate theory". And some have already managed to get those laws passed!
Tenesee law passed to teach creationism in public schools
That is be teaching religion in public schools.

Anyway, how have the assertions been unsupported? Without an understanding of evolution, most modern day vaccines could not have been developed. Without an understanding of physics, radioactive isotopes and HOW THINGS AGE, your computer could not exist. Or your watch, your flat screen TV, etc. Creationists don't just reject evolution, and simplifying it that much is disingenuous. They reject the scientific method entirely, and ANY findings that threaten their worldview.

The importance of evolution and physics come not only in their direct application (which ARE numerous, whether you want to accept it or not), but in the act that by rejecting 2 or more large fields of science and painting said scientists as liars or frauds, they are doing all scientists a huge disservice.