ABSTRACT
Enlightened scientists and educators everywhere lament the persistence of disbelief in the process of evolution through natural selection, but they have done little to illuminate the psychological basis of Creationist resistance. Creationists’ arguments against evolution certainly cannot constitute arguments in favor of supernatural creation. Whatever the relative contributions of biology and social structure in causing the patriarchality of human society generally, contempt for femaleness is widespread in our own society. Evolutionism, in the unconscious mind of the creationist, replaces father with mother, and with a kind of witch-mother at that. Creationism has become parasitic upon scientific discourse. However, these scientific-like activities give precious little support for creationism as a theory. There is good reason to deny the existence of a creation science, it is undeniable that a few of the leading creationists really are scientists. Ideally, mother and child “let go of the early bond without rejecting” one another.
