A LOT of people are naive about creationists. They regard them as small-town Bible literalists who believe the Earth is just a few thousand years old and that dinosaur bones in museums were deposited during Noah’s flood. Old-style creationists of this sort certainly exist, but in recent years their influence has been eclipsed by a more sophisticated breed who preach not Genesis but “intelligent design”.
This is the notion that organisms are too complicated and too improbably well adapted to their various niches to have formed by chancy Darwinian evolution alone. Somewhere, somehow, some sort of designing force – God…
