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This is actually good for science, and it's really going to hurt the Intelligent Design racket since now a wider, general audience is going to see the anti-evolution gang as spearheaded by Young Earth Creationists, who believe the Earth is 6,000 years old and still subscribe to long debunked flood geology.

It's like gun control. When the extremists who actually want to ban guns are the face of gun control, you see gun rights flourish because people see the extremity of the opposition.

I think creationism is still cited by people who not involved in science because they're under the impression that common descent, and even speciation and natural selection are compatible with religious creation; even the Pope accepts it. But once they understand the creationism is actually a total rejection of science and is a cover for a repackaging of George McReady Price's flood geology, I think you'll see a decrease in adherence. And the "Dinosaurs and Cavemen Living Together" exhibits aren't going to help either. Haha!

This is going to be a major failure for the Wedge Strategy. I think we need pictures of the Creation Museum plastered on every news outlet in the country.

“This is actually good for science, and it's really going to hurt the Intelligent Design racket since now a wider, general audience is going to see the anti-evolution gang as spearheaded by Young Earth Creationists, who believe the Earth is 6,000 years old and still subscribe to long debunked flood geology.”

Should be: “This is actually good for science, and it's really going to hurt the Darwinist’s evolution racket since now a wider, general audience is going to see the anti-Creation gang as spearheaded by Eugenicists, who believe the Earth is 60,000,000,000 years old and still subscribe to Darwin’s long debunked gradualist geology.

“It's like gun control. When the extremists who actually want to ban guns are the face of gun control, you see gun rights flourish because people see the extremity of the opposition.”

Yeppers, them Creationist are just as liberal as them gun controllers (SARC)!

Generally I agree with you. But if objective science is going to offer lamebrains like mechanical engineer turned stand-up comic turned "science guy" such as Bill Nye to defend evolution, then evidence and reason have got no chance.

Bill Nye is simply a scientific illiterate. His success as some iconic communicator of science is a horrifying tribute to how awful science education is in this country. Some of his "scientific" claims are real howlers; he has almost no understanding of physics or the current state of biochemistry/microbiology at all.

I can see Bill Nye losing big to a skinny bald guy in a red half-toga who claims the universe is an elephant on the backs of four turtles. Maybe even losing badly.

THAT'S funny!

In this creationist family we have one meteorologist, two physicists, and two engineers.

Hardly not involved with science types.

But once they understand the creationism is actually a total rejection of science and is a cover for a repackaging of George McReady Price's flood geology, I think you'll see a decrease in adherence.

No it's not. That's nothing more than a liberal talking point. I know plenty of Christians who believe in creation who are practicing scientists, some of whom have PhD's in their scientific fields and teach at local secular universities.

Believing that God created the universe does not by default translate into a blanket rejection of science.

And for one, I do not give a rip whether the pope believes anything, much less his opinion on evolution.