To publicly espouse the creatonist superstition is to resign from the modern world. It is a repudiation of our ancestors’ million year struggle for knowledge and understanding of the world around them. It dishonors their memory and denies the very thing that makes us human, our power to reason. It is an insult not just to the hard work and dedication that have gone into gaining scientific knowledge over the centuries, but to the very real sacrifices involved as well. People have died to bring us our knowledge of nature and the physical world and some still do from time to time.
Hundreds of millenia ago, some proto-human looked up from the plains of Africa, saw the Moon, and wondered what it truly was. Today, I can answer that ancestor’s question, for I have held a piece of the Moon in my own hand.
It is a connection to our remotest roots, a fulfillment of our deepest longing, a triumph for the ages. Yet there are other humans who would sell this heritage for the most transitory and tawdry of political and material gains. Shame on them and may their weakness and ignorance be consigned to the dustbin of history where it belongs.