Mike said, “it still makes me uncomfortable that some people may leave the Creation Museum really believing that this stuff is fact.”

Too late, Mike!

A solid *half* of America already believes that the Biblical account of the world’s origin is “true” (whatever that means to them)! A scientific worldview, i.e., one based on conclusions drawn from observable and testable reality, has an extremely tenuous hold in this country. Many, many people do not believe that science offers them anything useful or fulfilling in their lives, whereas religion does, esp. fundamentalist religion, filled with absolutes, where moral decisions and even physical reality is free of all ambiguity.

(As a mostly relevant aside, one sees this is politics nowadays too, where policies are formed based on dogma and ideal absolutes, rather than on testable, measurable ideas about real-world conditions. Moral absolutism trumps pragmatics.)