> four creatures would have to had evolved every second to get the variety we have now.

You're sure that hasn't been happening? The world's a big place. You can't be everywhere, so you don't know.

As for the kangaroos, even hard-core Darwinists acknowledge that only a very small percentage of animals were ever fossilized, and an even teenier percentage have been dug up.

So the kangaroos are undoubtedly out there.

With the land bridge to Australia.

I suppose that what he really wishes for is compulsory teaching of Christian doctrine in the public schools. He can't get that, so he'll accept teaching creationism.

I wonder if he'd allow it to be taught by a Muslim. Muslims accept Genesis just as literally as any Christian. (Presumably he'd say yes, as long as Genesis alone was taught.)

The more I think about it, the more this insistence on literal creationism begins to look like a kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder, like various conspiracy theories. As Nye pointed out, billions of Christians have no trouble in accepting Genesis as poetry, not fact.

And surely those Christians, Jews, and Muslims who believe literally in Genesis, don't spend much time thinking about it: later parts of the bible are of more immediate significance. Even Ham admitted that God wasn't going to hold the Darwinist "error" against people if they trust in Jesus otherwise.

So even from his point of view, the consequences of disbelieving in the literal truth of Genesis are nil.