tiponeill:

Would it matter if a person didn't believe in evolution, or believed in the Stork theory or that it was Turtles All THe Way Down ?

Not to me, and there are millions of people oever the world - mostly uneducated, in isolated tribes etc - who have truly silly creation myths and I wouldn't consider any of them to be fanatics.

It is not what someone believes, or how sincerely they believe it, or how irrational the belief is - it is what someone INSISTS that OTHERS believe that is the mark of the fanatic.

IN the case of evolution, if you talk to these people long enough you will find that their worldview is that if children are not taught that they were created by Jehovah and Adam and Eve and Snake etc they will have no moral compass - if you don't believe that then there is no absolute standard of morality.

So for them the highest value is inculcating their religion into others and any obstacle to that is fair game.

I don't think that it is all that important that people believe in evolution as such. But to be shown the evidence and to reject it as "not good enough" is lying and all religions are down on lying.

Take Behe. The man is highly educated. He has made objections to evolution many times and each such objection has been shot down, but does he just say, "Wow, that certainly supports evolution well. I'll just look it over and, if it is valid, I'll make a statement supporting evolution"? Hell no! He just grits his teeth, snubs the evidence and makes some other false claim about evolution that usually has the same falicies as the first, debunked claim. And he knows it. The man isn't a dummy; he must know when what he says is false.