[ToryHeartland]

So basically they're teaching creationism in the same syllabus as phlogiston and the four humours.

Yep -- plus the geocentric solar system, flat-earth, spontaneous generation--isn't there an American expression about "the whole nine yards"?

[Virginia-American]

isn't there an American expression about "the whole nine yards"?

Yep, and you're using it correctly.