On February 18, 2013, Laurence Krauss stated on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation “Okay. Well, I’ve recently, in the United States, just stated that teaching creationism is child abuse and I think it is. Namely, if you withhold knowledge or you do anything to children that puts them at a competitive disadvantage as adults, it’s child abuse. It’s mild forms of child abuse but it’s like withholding medicine. Withholding knowledge that later on will cause kids to become less competitive because…..