Believing in creation is not the same thing as creationism.
Creationism is a political construct based upon religious dogma, masquerading as fact. In many cases, it's a specific curriculum as well. It begins with the correct starting point (creation by God), but then tries to corral the known facts into a Bible box where it surely does not fit.
Once you begin with the incorrect notion of the earth only being 6000 years old, everything known by science must fit into that erroneous assumption. It does not. It cannot. Therein lies the greatest fault of creationism. It's so patently and obviously untrue that it holds all the Scripture and every believer up to public ridicule.
Creationist's should take note of what St. Augustine warned about nearly 1700 years ago:
"Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about the predictable eclipses of the sun and moon, the cycles of the years and the seasons, about the kinds of animals, shrubs, stones, and so forth, and this knowledge he hold to as being certain from reason and experience. Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn. The shame is not so much that an ignorant individual is derided, but that people outside the household of faith think our sacred writers held such opinions, and, to the great loss of those for whose salvation we toil, the writers of our Scripture are criticized and rejected as unlearned men. If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods and on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason? Reckless and incompetent expounders of Holy Scripture bring untold trouble and sorrow on their wiser brethren when they are caught in one of their mischievous false opinions and are taken to task by those who are not bound by the authority of our sacred books. For then, to defend their utterly foolish and obviously untrue statements, they will try to call upon Holy Scripture for proof and even recite from memory many passages which they think support their position, although they understand neither what they say nor the things about which they make assertion."
No, I wouldn't want my kids or grandkids being taught that and, no, I wouldn't send them to most modern-day "christian" schools, even though I am a fundamentalist Southern Baptist.
