Originally Posted by
noobium
maybe for some adherents, it really is blind faith, but plenty of Christians have reconciled science and faith.
for the people using it for politics, i doubt it's really a matter of a faith but a matter of principle - they want to make a statement that they can impose their will upon state policy, and the most effective way to do that is to spit in the face of intellectual integrity, make it their *****, and have it be accepted. they might know that they won't get to the point where their beliefs are held as commonly accepted truth, but they do force others to treat their blatant bull**** as valid and give it respect that it does not deserve. i highly doubt they really care what schools teach, or whether their particular indoctrination is perpetuated in the school system.
it's a pretty clever tactic, too. you really can't reason with someone who chooses to state something flagrantly wrong with a straight face.