My pet peeve about people who believe creationism (Score 3, Insightful)

is that they readily embrace other conclusions of science. Fundamentalist Christian's happily drive SUV's, talk on cell phones and take prescription medicine. They have no problem with the technologies and science that provide refined oil, vulcanized rubber, plastics, satellite communications, data encoding in radio waves, etc. They also implicitly agree with theories on blood-born pathogens, vaccines and antibiotics. But, when science turns its gaze to the age of the earth, the fossil record or the origins of the human genome, they suddenly have problems with the method or its conclusions. Except for possible exceptions like the Amish, it smacks of hypocrisy. Physics and chemistry are OK while genetics, astronomy and geology (oil good, dinosaurs bad) are suspect? If you want to live by revealed as opposed to discovered truth (remember Galileo?), perhaps rejecting more of the fruits of science is your spiritual path, are they not, after all, tools of the devil? I have no problem with spiritual beliefs, but 4000 year-old myths on the origin of the world really needn't be taken literally.