Reply #5: the smart ones will mostly get over it

[enki23]

of those kids who actually go on to become scientists, the vast *VAST* majority will get over this silliness. the rest will hide in mushy pseudoscience (like the oxymoronic "creation science"), or at least develop their own "wall of separation" between reality and religion. they'll rationalize, retheologize, internalize all sorts of semantic gymnastics, and they'll mostly get over the worst part of the fundy bs.

the rest are scarier, the ones who don't get over it. many of those will go on to be real estate agents, obnoxious car salesmen, MBAs, and the like. and republicans, but i repeat myself.


p.s. you've gotta like the second place entry: "Women were designed for homemaking."

p.p.s. still reading. my god, the best bit is a blurb at the bottom. it says everything that needs to be said about this "science" they've got going: "Mikey discovers a dinosaur bone while working on his science fair project. Realizing that evolution doesn't agree with his Christian beliefs, he resolves to evaluate the theory himself. He must decide what he believes and then have the courage to defend it, even if it means losing the science fair and the respect of his classmates"

gotta decide what you believe, then defend it to the death no matter what the evidence says. now *that* is christian science.