Someday the Sun Will Go Out and the World Will End (but Don't Tell Anyone) - New York Times

Someday the Sun Will Go Out and the World Will End (but Don't Tell Anyone) - New York Times: "Dreading the prospect that they too may be dragged into the culture wars, astronomers have watched from the sidelines in recent years as creationists in Kansas and Pennsylvania challenged the teaching of evolution in classrooms. Never mind that the Big Bang has been officially accepted by the Roman Catholic Church for half a century. The notion of a 14-billion-year-old cosmos doesn't fit if you believe the Bible says the world is 6,000 years old.

And indeed there have been sporadic outbreaks, as evidenced by the bumper stickers and signs you see in some parts of the country: 'Big Bang? You've got to be kidding — God.'

When the Kansas school board removed evolution from the science curriculum back in 1999, they also removed the Big Bang."