(February 13, 2010 at 4:34 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: I think you'll find it actually a very vocal tiny minority tavarish. And I take as much issue with them as you do. Any forcing of ideals is wrong, and in Christianities case, explicitly un Christian. Christianity can never be fact... otherwise it destroys itself and you'd be happy. Christianity has to be up for question to be internally consistent. Hitchikers' Guide is just a hell of a lot more shallow and humorous.
44% (creationists) of the American population is not a tiny minority. they are larger than any other like-minded group in this category and outnumber evolutionists 4 to 1. They elect our leaders and are the leaders in most cases. They try to push this crap into science class.
This is almost half of the people in the US believing that not only are the Vogons real, but they are on their way to build the hyperspace bypass.