it's not just here

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there are dimwits in britain and australia as well (or so it would seem).

Star of creationist circuit flies in hoping to stir the faithful in small towns of Britain Far away from lofty pulpits, a small band will gather to welcome their champion
Stephen Bates, religious affairs correspondent Tuesday April 18, 2006
The Guardian
Next week, an Australian will jet into Heathrow for a lecture tour that will gladden the hearts of the small but dauntless band of British creationists, believers in the biblical account of the origins of the world.
John Mackay, a former science teacher from Queensland, whose photograph shows him looking not unlike Indiana Jones, grinning in bush hat and open necked shirt, is one of Creation Science's speaking stars. He will console believers that Genesis is true, that the Earth is not millions of years old but only a few thousand and that science proves it, rather than the Darwinian theory of evolution accepted by the overwhelming majority of scientists for more than a century.
He comes here most years, though his 31 engagements from Scotland to Kent are mainly in nonconformist church halls and non-mainstream chapels rather than the loftiest pulpits or highest groves of academe. There will be talks at places like the Living Waters Fellowship at Newport, Isle of Wight, the Christian Outreach Centre in Bournemouth and the Destiny Church in Edinburgh. An appearance at Bangor University turns out to be in a hall hired by local evangelicals for the occasion.
There will even be a week-long Family Creation Conference in tents at the Cefn Lea Christian Holiday Park near Newtown in mid-Wales, for which about 40 families have signed up, at which Mr Mackay will attempt to answer fundamental questions such as: Did bees sting before Adam sinned? Why would birds need to migrate in a good world? What would polar bears do in a world with no ice and what did great white sharks eat before Aussies went surfing? The answers may seem obvious, but it is proof that even believers in the inerrancy of the Bible feel the need to seek something scientific to bolster their case.
What gives this two-month trip added point is the mounting attacks on creationism from scientists such as Richard Dawkins and Steve Jones and teachers' unions.
"I am very pleased with the brilliant publicity they give us," said Randall Hardy who runs the British branch of Mackay's Creation Research organisation from an office in Ashton-underLyne. "If I had rung up every newspaper I could not have got the same response. We ask these people to debate with John but they won't. David Attenborough replied about 10 years ago to say no, but Richard Dawkins never replies. They don't want to give us credibility. I think it is a form of censorship.
"Even some Muslims believe in creation but John would not preach in a mosque. They'd have to let him preach Jesus Christ first.
"Myself, I have been a fundamentalist Christian for 40 years. I think the Earth is only 6,000 to 10,000 years old. I am saddened that more prominent churchmen do not hold to the traditional understanding of the scriptures.".......