[Jedi Master Pikachu]

And the God of the Old Testament is exactly the same as the God of the New Testament.

Not intended offense to European freepers, but what a European attitude, that the Old Testament and the New Testament express two almost divergent views.

[ClaireSolt]

Hasn’t science exploded and made remarkable advances since about 1600 all the while most of its practiconers were Christian? Americans are too paranoid about all this. No one else sees the need to deny state funding to parochial schools, for instance.

[CarrotAndStick]

Creationism is NOT a threat to science--stubborn unwillingness to consider alternative views to the formation of the universe and life seems to to fit the bill, though.

Creationism? Which version of it? There must be atleast a couple of hundreds of them. So, when you decide on Creationism, just remember that you just entered a tunnel that leads to a tunnel of its own- each flavour of Creationism leading to a spectacularly different hypothesis. Of course the human mind is creative, so this variety is not a surprise...