What we have here is people using science to support their religious claims. This "museum" is chock full of "evidence" that their fundamentalist cosmology is correct. They put on the trappings of science to give authority to their religious ideals of biblical infallibility, inerrancy, and literalism.

These claims of infallibility are at the heart of what makes religious systems tick; without it religion becomes more of a safe social club with little memetic virulence. These claims of absolute knowledge are the very currency of religion, and this is why science and rationalism threaten all current metaphysical, spiritual, and moral institutions.

Since the churches don't have power in modern civil governments anymore, they can't force retractions using torture, imprisonment, and death. This is simply a different tactic, and it won't work.

Also, it seems to me that slashdot is more agnostic than atheistic, in that we think these wild claims people make about God are pretty fuckin' silly! Or pretty fuckin' scary. Although I'm sure many of us have read and agreed with Dawkins and Harris, we cannot completely rule out the idea even though we find it extremely unlikely.