The nomination of Sarah Palin as the GoP VP candidate in the US presidential election has once again brought the subject of creationism to the fore. When the Republicans cynically decided that what McCain needed in a running mate was someone who owned a vagina I'm not sure they knew what they were letting themselves in for because Palin brings with her a whole heap of down-home nonsense. Like creationism.
One of the most common questions you hear from people discussing creationism is "how can someone intelligent believe in it?" And of course hand-wringing liberals make all kinds of excuses for intelligent people who seemingly believe the world was made in six days 6000 years ago.
But the truth is that no intelligent person believes in creationism. Not one. Belief in creationism is one of the few cast-iron tests of intelligence. It doesn't matter how many GCSEs you have, how many Latin verbs you can conjugate, how many questions on The Weakest Link you can answer - believe the world was made in six days and you may as tattoo the words "thicko" on your forehead.
How can anyone who claims to have the merest hint of critical faculties get past the whole issue of dinosaurs without having to back up the lies of so called creation scientist? Well they lie. The faux scientists who come up with this creation science crap know they are lying through their teeth, that they falsify findings and don't give weight to good scientific theory. And you want to back them up, thicko?
So can we settle the issue. How can an intelligent person believe in creationism? An intelligent person couldn't.
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