Creationism is not scientific fact, people.

I despair sometimes, I really do. Particularly when the creationists are getting vocal:

A growing number of science students on British campuses and in sixth form colleges are challenging the theory of evolution and arguing that Darwin was wrong. Some are being failed in university exams because they quote sayings from the Bible or Qur'an as scientific fact and at one sixth form college in London most biology students are now thought to be creationists.

Good. I'm glad. I'm really pleased. I'm really pleased that they are being fucking failed. They deserve to fail if they try to pass off religious works as scientific fact. It is a bit like quoting Animal Farm in a history essay. It isn't real.

Of course, it isn't just religious nutters getting failed in exams that's the problem. No, what is more worrying is the creationists who get through:

One member of staff at Guys said that he found it deeply worrying that Darwin was being dismissed by people who would soon be practising as doctors.

See, I don't care what a doctor thinks as long as he can treat me. Yet I have to question whether someone who dismisses the teachings of Darwinism in favour of the teachings of a religious text is really capable of being an effective doctor. If I have a tumour that needs removing, then I want the doctor's first response to be surgery. Rather than prayer.

And it is the complete inability of some to see the stupidity of what they say that really gets to me:

A 21-year-old medical student and member of the Islamic Society, who did not want to be named, said that the Qur'an was clear that man had been created and had not evolved as Darwin suggests. "There is no scientific evidence for it [Darwin's Origin of Species]. It's only a theory. Man is the wonder of God's creation."

So, you are willing to dismiss Darwin yet assert that "Man is the wonder of God's creation" as if it is a fact. I can accept that Darwin's theory is, well, a theory, but surely to fuck you can see that God creating the world is a theory with a lot less evidence behind it that Darwinism. I mean, this is just plain ridiculous.

I have no issue with people holding whatever views they wish to hold. You want to believe in God, feel free. But your belief is not a scientific fact. If it was, then it would undermine the faith so essential to Christian teaching. I mean, I belief that the people who watch The X Factor and enjoy it are a little less human that those that don't, but the fact that I have this belief doesn't make it fact. And as a result it can never be used as factual evidence. Just as the fiction theory of creationism cannot be used factual evidence either.