Yeah , that ' s pretty brutal . I actually live in South Carolina and it never fails to amaze me how people can justify things that are just crazy . I ' m not against religion at all , but I think trying to introduce religion into our public education system does everyone a disservice . From a scientific point of view I feel that creationism is nothing more than cleverly disguised propaganda it only serves to obfuscate years of something very intensely studied by many people with no other agenda than finding out as much as we can about the world we find ourselves in . There are ZERO scientists going around trying to convert people to atheism . As a matter of fact I ' d even bet that many of them are religious . But science and religion are separate things . To say science is implicitly against religion is just as erroneous as implying that math or social studies is anti religion . From a religious point of view , if your faith can be shaken by scientific data , maybe it wasn ' t that strong in the first place .