Hayek and Creationism

I thought I was done for the night, but I just couldn't resist putting up the following quote from F.A. Hayek, a man conservatives (wrongly) like to think of as one of their own. The quote is from a certain famous essay of Hayek's whose title should be familiar to readers here ...

Personally, I find that the most objectionable feature of the conservative attitude is its propensity to reject well-substantiated new knowledge because it dislikes some of the consequences which seem to follow from it - or, to put it bluntly, its obscurantism. I will not deny that scientists as much as others are given to fads and fashions and that we have much reason to be cautious in accepting the conclusions that they draw from their latest theories. But the reasons for our reluctance must themselves be rational and must be kept separate from our regret that the new theories upset our cherished beliefs. I can have little patience with those who oppose, for instance, the theory of evolution or what are called "mechanistic" explanations of the phenomena of life because of certain moral consequences which at first seem to follow from these theories, and still less with those who regard it as irrelevant or impious to ask certain questions at all.

It's almost as if Hayek were attacking today's religious right from the grave, even though he's been dead for 13 years now - uncanny, isn't it?