Which alternative science group is the most harmful?

[BluegrassBlueVote]

Yeah, I think creationists are wrong, but what harm do they do?

Education?

Education? You mean private Christian schools? Private schools have the right to teach what they want, and should go unmolested.

Creationists have tried and continue to try to spread their ignorance into public school curriculum.

[BluegrassBlueVote]

Yeah, I think creationists are wrong, but what harm do they do?

Education?

Education? You mean private Christian schools? Private schools have the right to teach what they want, and should go unmolested.

Creationists have tried and continue to try to spread their ignorance into public school curriculum.

What practical harm does this cause other than the facts being wrong?

How is that not a big deal to you? It's deliberate misinformation at best... and propaganda at worst.

Would you be fine with an advocacy groups that demanded for spontaneous generation or flat Earth theory to be presented as fact in your son's biology courses? Those have as much credibility as the belief that our planet is 6,000-years-old.

"Other than the facts being wrong..."

[BluegrassBlueVote]

Well, for one, instructing children to deny basic scientific theories and accept non-scientific ones will probably make them more likely to join the anti-vaccination loonies that have been mentioned in this thread.

You're really trying to say that there's nothing potentially harmful to society which could stem from replacing the teaching of evolution in public schools with creationism? Nothing at all?

And then there's the whole constitutional problem of it, plus the fact that there are literally tens of thousands of religiously-inspired theories throughout human history that have attempted to explain the Earth's formation and would have rightful claims to be taught alongside Christianity's version.