Newsflash! Christian groups are still trying to enforce idiocy on America. Chris Taylor had a post today on Synthetic Morpheme about the Fellowship Baptist Creation Science Fair [link]. The fair took place in 2001. I'm not sure if this goup is still very active. The winning entry was "My Uncle Is A Man Named Steve (Not A Monkey)":

Cassidy Turnbull (grade 5) presented her uncle, Steve. She also showed photographs of monkeys and invited fairgoers to note the differences between her uncle and the monkeys. She tried to feed her uncle bananas, but he declined to eat them. Cassidy has conclusively shown that her uncle is no monkey.

This fair is apparently an effort at teaching children to embrace logical fallacies. The winning projects are little more than snyde remarks with posters. This is typical of creationism. It attempts to teach its audience (mostly children) to be skeptical of scientific and logical thinking, and to be confident in the use of immature, simplistic retorts. Science is regarded as nothing more than a lot of big, meaningless words. Projects with names like "the thermodynamics of hell fire" are praised for lampooning some of the best scientific ideas in human history. Careful thought and fair consideration of unfamiliar ideas is actively encouraged. This is characteristic of christian thinking on virtually every subject. Speaking of virtually every subject, here's what this group thinks about the internet:

The Internet was created by the United States of America - a Christian nation [ref. 1, 2, 3] - and should not be used to spread anti-Christian, secular, or non-Christian propaganda and hatespeech. This is our Internet, and we should exercise our position as its owners and as the guardians of civilization to stop its misuse. [link]

The page goes on to complain that "Their [Landover Baptist's] modus operandi is simple: post articles that take good Christian values and twist them - beyond recognition - such that they look arrogant, hateful, or just idiotic." Do I even need to point out that the majority of technical contributions which led to the internet's creation were made by non-Christians, and a big chunk of them were probably made by non-Americans. The Internet belongs to no one. The parts that make up the internet belong to millions of private companies, individuals, schools and government agencies. The have the arrogance to suggest that The Internet is the property of Christians alone -- thereby committing that age-old christian sin of appropriating the property of others on shaky religious grounds. They furthermore are hateful enough to ignore the vast contributions and interests of non-Christians in use of the internet. And they are manifestly idiotic (see the creation science fair). Sounds to me like Landover is on the right track.