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Their religious beliefs, if literal, are certainly moronic. Their tactics for pushing their agenda onto, at times, unsuspecting students, certainly aren't.
We need to be careful that by pouring scorn on Creationist beliefs, we may inadvertently underestimate them. Give them a chance, and some carefully packaged and obscured inclusion in a textbook, or some initially unrelated change to the educational process, may result in some ancient nonsense gaining credibility in our classrooms.
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