Hi Dwise1
I love your amazingly detailed descriptions of the creationist position in the 80's and beyond. The conversion stories are moving - and also sad - all that wasted energy that could have gone to better use! And who knows the personal angst so many must have gone through on finding their creationist masters had lied to them - all so the great money machine could continue!
The con runs so deep - from the working class people conned by the shiny-suited televangelists, to those deluded holders of a 'diploma-mill' degree, who doubtless have thought they have worked hard and deserved their accreditation.
I don't know about 'foolish atheists' - but 'foolish creationists' seem ten a penny (as we say in Yorkshire, England)!