The role of creationism isn't just whacky pseudoscience, it's really a war on truth, it's not about presenting an alternative, it's about saying that facts are interchangeable with opinions, that lies are true, that we can believe anything we want. And once they elevate creationism, a myth, an absurdity, they destroy the possibility, the sanctity of honest, dispassionate intellectual and scientific inquiry. Chris Hedges- American Fascists- the Rise of the Christian Right