Creationism is nonsense. Gross nonsense. Being carried out on the backs of students who are being pushed back with such rubbish into times that one thought had been overcome with the apology of the Catholic Church to Galileo Galilei (okay, he was already dead by then for a few centuries and the apology wasn't entirely genuine anyway).
And it is alarming how close this wave of stupidity is coming to us—with Italy and Serbia practically on our doorstep. And I'm not even that sure that we are really as safe from this plague spreading as we believe.