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Originally Posted by photon
Will it make them evil? In and of itself no, but I think that evil acts can definitely be committed as a result of the kind of mindset that creationism flourishes in. Hyperbole? Maybe, but the extremes of a data set are still part of the data set. When one thinks that one has the Truth, that is a very dangerous thing. Any means is justified when one is Right.
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Adding to that point, as long as somewhere along the line children are taught critical and skeptical thinking, they can have the tools to grow up as good citizens who will take claims and give them the skeptical rigors they deserve.
That mindset of belief without proof certainly helps many other things flourish such as Psychics, Mediums, much of alternative medicine (ie Homeopathy, crystal therapy), Alien abductions (replaced the demon obsession of the previous 2000yrs), Astrology, superstitions (lucky sock), etc..
Carl Sagan explained this best in the
Demon Haunted world, he covers the whole spectrum of what children brought up without what he called "a balony detection kit" would be likely to fall prey to.