This morning, I was engaged in the self-flagellation of reading some of the articles on the Answers in Genesis website, and one in particular caught my eye. This article, calling for the " rescuing " of children from a good science education, was a take on the recent revelations that a Christian school gave a "science" test in which answers that no credible scientist would accept (see the image of the test here ) were given a perfect score. The question "Dinosaurs lived with people," was marked as "true" by both student and teacher, for instance, when in fact there is no evidence that humans ever lived with dinosaurs at any place or any time. What was particularly striking about this whole story was not Ham's reaction to it, which is fairly predictable given his usual penchant for identifying anyone accepting evolution as an "atheist," when in fact many Christians and members of other faiths accept the veracity of evolution. No, w...
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