This nutbar is a scientist who believes the earth is 6000 years old and people support him? Throw on top of that the others? The dispair thread comes to mind.

Re the bible... I talked at length to a man who had almost became a Jesuit priest and he told me that it was written so that a priest could support or deny any action or circumstance. The example I recall immediately is "eye for an eye" vs "turn the other cheek". That is "control".