"Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, . . . and this knowledge he holds to as being certain from reason and experience. Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking non-sense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn." Thus wrote Saint Augustine, and quite intelligently and sensibly.

The above is quoted in "CA040: Equal time.," one of many reality-checking articles archived at The Talk.Origins Archive's "Index of Creationist Claims," edited by Mark Isaak.

Hmm. The notion of giving evolutionary theory "equal time" in church is rather tempting . . . .