by teaching creationism at school for starters as an apparently credible alternative to evolution.
The rigours of scientific thinking and the methodology employed therein are the cornerstone of academic pursuit in the 21st century.
To completely discard the essential contribution of darwin to our understanding of animal biology and then present the story of adam and eve as historical fact (rather than as a metaphor for innocence lost which it is it's obvious intention) is a gross corrosion of the type of cognitive process necessary to engage in useful political discourse.
I am sure many of our American brothers and sisters could furnish us with numerous less obvious examples of the same thing.