The whole point of getting creationism into the schools is to foster and promote egregious stupidity. Present-day US movement conservatism needs this kind of stupidity as much as fire needs oxygen.

The end result is useful idiots like our chew toy here. Young earth creationists are stupid enough to believe in the rest of the RW nut job dogma (trickle down economics, AGW denial, etc., etc.), and are well trained to disregard evidence and common sense.