What so many Republicans don’t understand is that advocating pseudoscience (such as “creationism”) to blindly stay within the framework of an ideology is a losing proposition now and in the long run. Anyone doing such things eventually loses not just credibility in matters of science, but in ideology as well. For example, no one takes ANYTHING serious from anyone who advocates a flat earth. Likewise, those who deny evolution in spite of the mountains of evidence that show it to be a fact are slowly but surely going down the same failed path of the flat-earthers.

Republicans are sowing the seeds of their own destruction by stubbornly clinging to ideology over science.