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Originally Posted by derek
Creationism in itself is reasonable enough. I find it funny that people are offended by it, I reckon it speaks more about them than the creationist. The problem lies in naming the said creator.
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The greater problem is in calling it science. "Intelligent Design", i.e., the coy campaign to keep "God-talk" to a wink short of silent, proves this. What people are typically upset about is this which is the most popular, perhaps the ONLY, attempt to introduce non-science into science classes at high school...and desired explicitly because of an ideological conflict with the basis of biology (evolution), not because they just think it's just such clearly vital science that it should be taught---it evolution wasn't taught, or even discovered, there would be no massive ID movement in the US.
It's easy to think people are annoyed by the incoherent blabber and pathetic arguments of creationism, but typically that doesn't bother them any more than 'alien abduction' belief...insofar as it's a private idiocy it's just laughable, all that people are worked up over is the misrepresentation of it which is counterproductive to education, and an insulting misleading claim as to what constitutes science.
This at least is the overwhelming consensus of the popular skeptical community leaders I've heard speak on the matter: they're mostly not anti-theists, just anti...deceptive lies about science.