Status Updates From Philosophy of Pseudoscience...

Consider the claim "that Reason rules the world, and that world history has therefore been rational in its course." This was once an extremely serious philosophical idea (the quote is from Hegel, and served as motto for Brian Keeley's 1999 paper on epistemic flaws in conspiracy theories).

An interesting case is the Australian geologist and creationist Andrew Snelling. Despite working on mining and petrogeology that covers millions of years, and publishing work on that basis, Snelling nevertheless contends that the Earth is only a few thousand years old.

Popular religion pays little heed to theology, as revealed by research into theological incorrectness. Theists may be able to reproduce theologically correct dogma when explicitly required to, but they seem to operate with much simpler and less counterintuitive supernatural beliefs than those condoned by theology.

Creationism is an attractive doctrine, argue Steffan Blancke and Johan de Smedt, because we are wired by evolution to see agency everywhere. "Evolved to be creationist". That would fit well on a T-shirt, wouldn't it?