"if not most of modern science was conducted by biblical creationists"

What??? That's trolling pete, plain and simple. Total and utter bullshit. Show me how you came to that ridiculous conclusion. I've never met a creationist scientist, and I've met a lot of scientists.


"his also gives the lie to the strange idea that being a creationist will hamper scientific progress."

Creationism is NOT science. A creationist scientist doesn't seek the truth, they seek to confirm their own preconceived dogma based on an old story written down by some desert tribesmen.


"and they call that science?"

No they don't. We don't teach native Australian or Shinto creation myths (check these out, they're far more beautiful and profound in concept and story than that Abrahamic folktale) in science classes for the same reason; it has rag all to do with what science is how it is conducted.


"When I taught evolution in schools, I was aware that some pupils had issues with it.
Jehovah's Witnesses and Muslims."

Sod 'em. Sod any religious type who wants their 'truth' to b e taught as science. It's not and should be kept out of science classes.

We have to give our kids a chance before the fundamentalists get their evil claws into their education. This is why (to the befuddlement of the Christians here) those of us who are involved in science are so vociferous in defending our views. The future is under threat from people who want to take the world back to the middle ages, with the church ruling everyone and fundamentalists dictating how we live, abandoning reason and our innate curiosity.

You start with literalist interpretations of your chosen sacred text and your fundamentalist principles and you end up with ISIS. End of. Two sides of the coin of ignorance. Anyone who is a literalist or fundamentalist (i.e. a creationist) is on that slippery slope.