Oh shit...
Yeah, I know all about the Discovery Institute. This is really depressing... It's like when you have someone you really look up to, perhaps even idolize, then one day find out they're a child molester. Only, this is worse; he's a...CREATIONIST!
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against people that are religious, as long as you're not hurting someone else knock yourself out. But to find out that someone who's so smart (a scientist even) believes Genesis is a factual account of how we came to be... How can I trust anything else they say?
I mean, I know a couple of real scientists who are Christian, but they believe everything in the Bible is more allegorical, i.e., people trying to explain the unexplainable in a way that made sense to them at the time. For instance, one person I know thinks Adam being created out of mud is a metaphor for evolution (we all started as primordial ooze). I can at least respect that, but Creationism? Damn...
My fiancé is the organizer of a local Skeptic Meetup Group; we're having a regular meeting tomorrow (Skeptic Sunday Brunch) so I'll have to bring this up. So depressing.