If you want to see nuttiness in action just look at the thread that inspired this one, in which posters advocate geocentrism and argue that the use of antibiotics defies the word of God and shortens people's lives.
While there is an anti-science kooky fringe in the Conservative movement, it is (luckily) quite small.
I was of a very scientific mind, but some of these fundamentalists have finally gotten me to see the light. I now agree that the earth is at most 5,000 years old. How else could the Egyptians have built the pyramids but with a powerful brachiosaurus?
I suppose this came to mind because a week or so ago I stumbled on a wacko fundamentalist website for kids that explained that the earth was only 5K years old and man and dinosaurs lived together. If the timeline of the Bible doesn't quite fit, just change all known evidence!