Now that right there is a gem! Unfortunately, these people are in positions of political power. Which, when you look at the requirements to actually get into politics, doesn't surprise me. There's not many jobs above the poverty line that doesn't require a degree or special certification/license. Somehow, the one that affects the most peoples lives doesn't either.
Sadly, I fear we are too steps away from living in a real life idiocracy. Maybe it's just the way we interact with one another through the internet, but people on both sides of this debate can to easily make themselves look ignorant, callus, and fanatical.
For example, there was a post put up on another site quoting a message where a mother, obviously a creationist, was asking questions about letting her son play with dinosaur toys, even though they didn't exist within the context of her world views given from the bible. Now, the way what she had wrote read, made it obvious that she was completely ignorant of evolution. What I mean is, she was probably raised in a strictly religious household, in a strongly religious community, probably in a religious school, that taught only the bible as science. All of the reading and writing assignments would be religious in context. Unlike the buffoon quoted above, she doesn't seem to have been taught anything otherwise.
Now what I found more disturbing, after all, you don't pick your parents or the type of community you are born into. What bothered me more was the responses to the post. There were some seriously viscous attacks that made people sound as fanatical and tyrannical as any zealot can be. There needs to certainly be a staunch push against religion, but it needs to be aimed at the perpetrators such as Mr. Brattin, Ken Ham, and any others who claim themselves learned, yet use religion to try and disguise their arrogance and ignorance, and no doubt to gain wealth and power.
