Why Creationists' Willful Ignorance?

I don't recall noticing this aspect mentioned earlier in this thread.Willful ignorance by creationists concerning things relating to creationisms doesn't in itself concern me that much. Sure, we need to resist their efforts to weaken science education, but they have the major problem of the 1st amendment - Anything creationism is never going to fly in public schools.What I find more troubling is that the willfully ignorant creationists seem to be to a large degree the same people that are willfully ignorant etc. concerning other issues. They seem to be prominent in global warming denialism and, in general, denialism of man's adverse environmental impacts.And I must wonder what proportion of the Tea Party are also hard core creationists.Hard core creationism is just a symptom of a larger mindset of reality denialism. These are people we don't want in our government or influencing our government.Or something like that.Moose

The "kinds" thing is pretty thin on details. Are you sure someone, say the Chinese, didn't earlier come up with at least as good of a life form groupings? Trillion? Billion would be absurd. You think the Australian continent could ever support a billion people, much less 5 trillion? Genesis also had plant life before the creation of the sun. Not only thin on the details, but flat out wrong.Moose