Political design

Creationism as political wack-bat is just about the most degrading incarnation of religious thought influencing the processes of democratic governance. Mainly because religion has no place in diversified politics since one world view cannot inform completely the rule of a diversified community. Policy has to function universally and impartially in order to be fair and effective. That is to say that temporal powers have to be a-religious in order to govern peoples of various or no faiths. That is not to say that principals found in religion cannot be useful to constitutional development but they must be deaffilliated and universally acceptable to be used in that way. Christian creationism is an exclusive and highly specific version of the Intelligent design view of the origins of life, this of course means a great deal to certain people and holding that view is their right and that right should be protected. But seeking to impose that view politically or to impose any specified view as the administrations' accepted view as found taught in it's institutions is divisive and prejudicial. So teaching creationism as the accepted view of life's origins or teaching evolution as the universally accepted explanation for those origin's is equally inappropriate and undemocratic. Believe whatever you want but seeking to have that belief taught as the generally accepted view of the administration as representative of society is just another form of the tyranny that democracy was invented to protect humanity from.