“Don’t let the sign fool you. This guy’s only a little older than Billy Graham.”

The front page of last Wednesday’s Washington Post brings us an enlightening (if predictably condescending) article about a group of Liberty University students going on a field trip to the Smithsonian, under the guidance of their biology professors.

The catch, of course, is that the Smithsonian trip was designed as opposition research — Liberty teaches young-earth creationism, and neither the professors nor the students believe in Darwinian evolution, carbon dating for fossils, or an earth whose