Abstract: This article analyzes the creationism controversy in public speeches of politicians, scientists and journalists, focusing on arguments based on civil rights rhetoric and appropriation of technoscientific rationality. We observed that creationism is advocated as a matter of public interest based on the right of freedom to belief, or as a particular belief that does not interfere with the public life of politicians or even as a scientific theory to which academic and speech freedom is denied. The strategic adoption of different discourses demonstrates an attempt by the movement not only to resist the logic imposed on it by its opponents, but an insistence on existing within that very logic which seeks to expel them from public life and science.
Keywords:
creationism; religious education; technoscientific citizenship; laicism; secularism