I don't believe people who do this are silly or crazy, rather that it's just human nature to focus narrowly. A person dying of cancer, when he stubs his toe will instantly, wrongfully consider the toe his number one health problem.
IMHO, we all just need to back away, get our priorities straight (it's about the Creator not the creature) and look again at the forest of evidence, including both physical and non-physical.
Man did not live contemporaneously with dinosaurs. The majority of species that ever existed are now extinct. The continents have moved over the ages of the Earth and when Antarctica drifted too far south it was inhabited by extinct species.
Dawkins tries to do exactly htis by insinuating that there is no spirit, and that any such thoughts are mearely due to a mutaiton which keeps people ignorant apparently- He beleives that belief in God is due to a virus (which he also beleives, beleive it or not, that it can be spread by coughing or sneezing). Nat Geo, the Discovery channel, PBS and hte History Channel ALL tryto inject their brand of theology into evolution all the time- As do a great many scientists that beleive in Macroevolution- their god however is nature that apparently is capable of the doing hte impossible- But heaven forbid Creationists bring up the metaphysical, and point to the spirit and higher knowledge coming from the Holy spirit, in ADDITION to discussing hte physical evidences seen in nature- Why then they are branded as ‘daft’ for doing so- What’s ‘good for’ the Goose, apparently isn’t good for hte Gander