The curious case of Sarah Salviander.

[Anomalocaris]

There is a lunatic fringe in any group classified by education, theoretical intelligence, and upbringing. Being outliers their actions can be animated by a wide range of considerations, psychologies, and private motivations. The suffices to say that whatever caused them to say what they would, the bulk of the field hewing closer to the professional standards of the field regard them with pity mixed with appropriate disdain.   The fact that evangelicals need to harp on the existence of a lunatic fringe in the community of those with PhDs in astrophysics, as if it were some new revelation, tells just how crudely opportunistic and contemptuous of the full perspective on facts these movements are, and how utterly brain dead and gullible their followers had always been.