What's to teach?? It's like one chapter in the Old Testament and then all further inquiry is shrugged with some aloof form of "wisdom".
"Because that's just the way it is."
Yeah, but they go a lot further than that. They've spent the last few decades inventing a bullshit "science" out of whole cloth. And they're pretty savvy about marketing it. There's a market out there ... all the people buying those "Left Behind" books, for example. They've got a pretty sweet
Creation Museum in the Cincinnati/Kentucky area. Looks like a nice day out for the family.
My stepdad recently retired from the engineering department at Virginia Tech, which is pretty well-respected for engineering. He had a couple of colleagues he complained about because they were advocates of the whole creationist thing. Granted, engineering isn't the same thing as the biological sciences ... but still, these guys are supposed to have some respect for the basic tenets of scientific inquiry, right? Right?? ?