Creator Contest!

In the U.S., “Creationism” is being use by Christian fundamentalists to combat “evolutionist,” the term they have for science. This move is confusing in many levels. On the one hand, through legal manoeuvres they may get schools to teach “creationism.” On the other, they equal religion and science. From the perspective of religion that is an immeasurably large step down. It goes from divine truth to competing human ideas. The move also opens religion, in most cases Christianity, to analysis rather than faith. What is more discomforting to Christian fundamentalist is that there will be no good reason no to include other religions’ “creationism.” The result is not so much the institutional aids to evangelize but a further dilution of the message. God created the world in six days by willing it is cool, but to a 12-year-old boy, Odin creating earth from the decaying corpse of Ymir is just so much cooler!