Here is a good article that characterizes modern creationism as a conspiracy theory.

Why creationism bears all the hallmarks of a conspiracy theory (theconversation.com)

It’s stuff like this that shapes my attitude that for all the good that religious people claim it does, for the most part, religion substracts from the well-being of humanity as a whole. I used to say that mankind would have developed space travel and reached the moon by the year 1000 if it hadn’t been for the Christian religion and all the oppression it practiced through the centuries.