re: #40 Egregious Philbin

Creationists are just stupid.

Period.

Knowingly stupid, they revel in it like swine in dirt.

They want to prove that all those smart nerdy types who actually understand science can’t argue them down; as though this, rather than making everyone’s life better, were the real objective of those smart science types.
Scientific knowledge is a personal threat to them, pure and simple, since it represents a kind of power they could never have themselves. I grew up around anti-intellectual rednecks. The hatred and hostility they exhibit toward any kind of intelligence or achievement is literally palpable, there are actual physical symptoms that become easy to recognize as you go through life defending yourself from the brainless rage of morons.
They tense up and give you this suspicious sideways glare as though you have just said something about their wife’s one night stands or something. These assholes wonder why they get pissed on every time someone with a brain has the chance.