It also has to do with upbringing and the human desire for stability. Most of these people are being taught from birth about the Bible, Jesus, Holy Spirit, etc and as most logical people know: our youth is when we are most open to outside influences.

It’s like a blank sheet of paper in a sense…but once it’s drawn on, it’s very hard to get rid of what was originally there. Sometimes the artist hasn’t had time to properly ink it so you can erase most of the image (Usually there are still those annoying eraser marks though), but most of the time you are too late and you either just end up smearing the ink or it’s already dried and you can’t do anything about it. Once the page is inked, you can either alter the drawing a bit, scribble all over it, or just white out certain parts.

It sounds simple in the terms of a drawing…too bad people are a lot more difficult to deal with.

The next problem which that leads into is stability or pattern. All humans crave some form of it in their lives (laws, standards, marriage), etc…because those kinds of patterns are what we can turn to in crisis (even if they are bad for us)

What we as science-lovers are doing is attempting to white out, scribble over, or alter the ink in the picture. We are telling these people who really don’t know any better that they have been wrong for years and that the stories they grew up to believe as the truth were false the whole time.

Now I’m not saying that we should stop (Just because someone is in denial doesn’t mean the whole world should stop turning while they mentally pick up the pieces of their shattered reality) but I still feel that this point should also be brought up for Hooton.

It’s pathetically stupid, but true…we humans very much are creatures of habit.

Embracing the rational conclusions of evolutionary biology is the last thing a fundie will ever do, regardless of the mental gymnastics required, because doing so would mean part of their precious goddamned bible is wrong, and we can’t have that because……well, we just can’t.

Christian theology is hugely dependent on the Genesis fable, because without it there is no original sin for all of us to be born with, and without original sin, there is no need for Jesus. Fundies may be aware of this, somewhere deep down in their troubled, addled minds, and as a result fight so viciously against what science has to offer.

The Genesis story also conveniently justifies centuries of male-dominated sexism by blaming Eve for the fall in the garden, so you can see how a good number of fundies would be reluctant to have this particular apple cart upset.

Finally, the story of Genesis represents human narcissism at its worst. It tries to tell us that the entire universe exists for our benefit, and we are supposedly even made in the image of god. The history of our evolution tells a very different story, one that requires no supernatural hocus-pocus and puts our place in the biohistory of this planet in proper context.

Given how fundies usually prattle on about how humble and modest they are, it certainly requires an astounding level of arrogance to conclude that you are the product of an omnipotent, omniscient force, and that that force wants you to spend eternity with it, and that during your life on Earth it will occasionally suspend the laws of nature on your behalf so that you’re annoying headache goes away, or you get a primo parking space at the mall. The delusions of fundies know no bounds, Hooton, and their addiction to religion guarantees that cold, hard reason will never replace ridiculous but comforting fantasies.

Comparing a pigeon to a creationist is unfair. One is filthy and has a brain the size of a pea, and the other is a lovely, peaceful, feathered animal.

Um…creationists are peaceful? False. Creationists are rabidly Zionist, and make up the majority of the supporters left of the illegal American invasion of Iraq - even though we all now know that all of the justifications for going to war (other than that the Bush family knows how to hold a grudge) were exposed as fabrications.
Peaceful warmongers? cf. oxymoron

Too bad their heads don’t explode when you feed them raw rice though…T-T

Not only do they get it wrong, but they all seem to get it wrong in the same way!

That’s because none of them have any idea of what they’re talking about, and can only repeat (”parrot”, to keep with the bird analogy) the crap they hear on conservative talk radio or the 700 Club.