And while we’re on a creationist roll here… this little bit from across the pond should demonstrate well how trying for 100% pluralism is not going to work:

BBC Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman has been criticised over “offensive” comments he made on air about religious people last year.

Viewers complained to the BBC over an edition of the BBC Two programme aired on September 13, 2011, which featured an interview with author and well known atheist Professor Richard Dawkins, on his new book The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True.

The complainants claimed that the presentation of Dawkins’s book was biased and offensive, particularly in regard to Paxman’s failure to challenge the anti-creationism subject matter due to his own beliefs.

In the interview segment, Paxman referred to religious beliefs as “hogwash”, branded those who believe in the Genesis account of creation as “stupid people”, […]

The BBC responded to the complaints by saying that it did not believe the item had an anti-Christian bias. It also claimed that the discussion was about Dawkins’s new book, and “not about the merits of religion or science as a whole”.

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However, the complainants were not satisfied with that response and the matter was escalated to the BBC Trust.

In a ruling today (July 31), the Trust’s Editorial Standards Committee said that Paxman’s comments had been offensive, but judged that the interview as a whole had not shown bias towards an anti-Christian position.

The Trust said that the Newsnight item had approached the controversial subject “with due impartiality in a way that was adequate and appropriate to the output given the subject and nature of the content”.

However, the body added that Paxman’s use of language in the interview would have been offensive to some viewers.

Whilst the use of the word “myth” was acceptable as it referred to Dawkins’s book and its aim to teach children to replace myth with science, the Trust said that it was not justified for Paxman to refer to “hogwash” and “stupid people” in the context of religion.

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“The Committee therefore concluded that the item breached the Editorial Guidelines on Harm and Offence. It added that it regretted the offence caused to some viewers by the use of the terms ‘religious hogwash’ and ‘stupid people’ on this occasion.”

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As very stupid as I find much of Fox News (and similar outlets’) content to be, I’m glad that free speech is protected here, compared to the UK ” Editorial Guidelines on Harm and Offence”.

Frankly, in this day an age creationism is “hogwash”, and a news presenter ought to be able to use that term.