Gayatri Devi at The Guardian notes that creationism from the mouths of right-wing politicians is not about belief in divine origian, but rather something more worldly: Creationism isn't just an ideology – it's a weapon of political control: The Republican presidential candidates’ public obsession with creationism, though, isn’t really about education. It’s about cementing their Christian credentials with the influential evangelical voting bloc by announcing their opposition to all that is not heterosexual, Christian and not “speaking American” – whatever that means. It can be a winning strategy: a 2014 Gallup poll showed that 42% ofAmericans believe that God created human beings in their present form 10,000 years ago.