| The biggest current scam on the Creationist front (I capitalize Creationist to refer to those who reject science, not to include those who accept science but still believe that everything was still created by God) is 'Intelligent Design.' It's a particularly-slimy creationism that tries to hide it's religious roots by claiming that life must have had a designer but disclaiming any knowledge of or interest in said designer. It wants to put on the trappings of science, but it has no scientific agenda, no research program, no hypothesis testing. Instead it makes philosophical claims that 'undirected naturalism' could not have produced life as we know it (or any life, for that matter), and then claims that if it can disprove 'Darwinism,' then it wins by default. In this, it basically depends on an argument to ignorance, although it tries to obscure that as well.
Some of the old Creationists reject ID as insufficiently Biblical, but many have jumped on its bandwagon because in it they see a promise of getting around judicial rulings against Creationism, including 'scientific creationism' -- i.e., in ID's hiding of its religion behind a cloud of obfuscation. Thus, many of the newer attacks on evolution (e.g., most recently in Ohio, Texas, Minnesota, and Missouri) have come at least to some extent under the rubric of ID. |