Lest anyone think my ire is focussed solely on theleft-leaning side when it comes to magical thinking…behold:

What Is the “Dark Energy” That Scientists Seek to Measure and Define?

The universe is observable. It is full of phenomena that can be quantified, even if they are not yet understood. One such phenomena is the apparent accelerating expansion of the universe, something that defies current understanding. The expansion *should* be slowing down as the mass of the universe causes slowing through gravitation, just as shrapnel shot into the air by an explosion are slowed by gravity… but careful observation indicates that that’s not happening. So scientists have come up with the concept of “dark energy” not to explain it but as something of a placeholder until observational data or improvements to theory can better explain the situation.

But what do we get from Monseigneur Charles Pope of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C.?

This is why the universe expands more rapidly as it goes outward: Love, God’s love!

Fortunately, he points out that he’s speaking “lightheartedly.” But it remains an explanation firmly mired in magic. No real work goes into the explanation; no work *at* *all* goes into either confirming or falsifying the claim.

It’s not far from this sort of thing to “the Earth is less than 10,000 years old and using millions of taxpayer dollars to build a replica of a fantasy Ark in Kentucky makes a whole lot of sense.”