The defining war of this century is being waged by “mutant capitalists, whose obsession with perpetual growth and material wealth, is destroying the planet’s ecosystem, will end our civilization.” Jack Bogle warned us of this virus in his classic, “The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism.”

Now, a decade later, mutant capitalism is mutating further, becoming a pandemic among conservative politicians. Today every member of the GOP controlling the Senate, House and their state governors are all de facto mutant capitalists, thanks to big money donations, and like robots all linked to one master machine that renders them incapable of independent thinking when it comes to their lockstep march as climate-science deniers.

Yes, they’re mindless robots at odds with over 2,500 scientists who now warn, after more than two decades of research, that they are 97% “certain humans are causing climate change, that the damage is accelerating 10 times faster than the past 65 million years and soon we will self-destruct our civilization and disappear like dinosaurs, forever.”

Bill Nye “the science guy” is the new warrior challenging antiscience robotic senators like the GOP’s James Inhofe, who’ll soon be chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Nye says America needs a new generation of leaders savvy in science and technology. Inhofe and fellow Republicans are Luddites trapped in a 19th century Wild West time warp. Fortunately Bill Nye, “the science guy” believes that while deniers are a lost cause, too incapable of rational thinking, their kids are not.

Nye’s “biggest concern is about creationist kids” whose parents are science deniers. “They’re compelled to suppress their common sense, to suppress their critical-thinking skills at a time in human history,” Nye recently told New York Times reviewer Jeffery DelViscio about his new book, “Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation.”

So Nye’s just stepped into the science denialism war zone, and on a rigid ideological land mine. Maybe Nye and his 2,500 “science guy” friends on the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are worried about the education of the next generation of creation kids.

But unfortunately, the fact is that 42% of all Americans don’t agree with Bill Nye when it comes to science. So Nye, Pope Francis and all climate-science believers have an enormous fight on their hands with the parents, teachers and their state education officials of these creation kids. Here’s a profile of the everyday world their creation kids live and learn in:

Gallup says 42% of Americans believe in creationism

And 76% believe climate is not a major national priority

Half of Americans say climate change is a “sign of the Apocalypse”

Those who do believe will pay only about $5 to stop global warming

Check the facts: According to Gallup polling, “more than four in 10 Americans continue to believe that God created humans in their present form 10,000 years ago, a view that has changed little over the past three decades. Half of Americans believe humans evolved, with the majority of these saying God guided the evolutionary process.”

Moreover, another Gallup poll says only 24% of Americans think “climate change” is a problem, put it near the bottom of 15 national problems polled. So today, 76% of Americans (that’s about 235 million!), say climate change, global warming and the environment are not the nation’s top priority. What is? Social Security, jobs, immigration, crime, big government, etc. But not overheating the planet.

Nye should call Bill McKibben, “the environmental guy” who wrote in Foreign Policy journal that it’s “too late” to change the minds of 236 million climate-science deniers in America, especially when Big Oil’s trillion dollars in annual revenue just keeps fueling the educators and parents of creationist kids, conservative billionaires and the GOP. Betting odds work against Bill Nye.

Keep an open mind: tour the Creation Museum, Noah’s Ark theme park

Moreover, before all you disciples in climate science dismiss all those deniers, keep an open mind and at least check out the online photo tours of the 70,000-square-foot Creationist Museum in new Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s home state of Kentucky, where they’re also building the $73 million Noah’s Ark Theme Park with a 510-foot replica of the ark, to be opened in 2016.

Start with BuzzFeed’s Matt Stopera online tour of the Creation Museum, “This is What Creationists Believe About Dinosaurs.” You’ll learn about some of their basic beliefs, that Bill Nye must overcome in educating creation kids.

Here’s a few beliefs: “There were humans and dinosaurs living together at the same time”... that dinosaurs also came two-by-two on Noah’s Ark ... that dinosaurs didn’t actually go extinct after the Great Flood ... and that science may be no match for America’s 140 million God-fearing creationists.

Other reviews point out that while carbon dating proves that dinosaurs went instinct 65 million years ago, creationists simply dismiss that bit of science. Why? According the “Creation Answers Handbook,” their beliefs are grounded in the Bible which “comes from the Creator, is nonnegotiable, and opposed to the changing views and models of fallible people seeking to understand the data within that framework” where “evolutionists often change their ideas.”

In short, Bill Nye has a impossible task, one that the 2,500 scientists on the UN Panel on Climate Change have been losing for over two decades. Why? There are roughly 120 million God-fearing American creationists. And “the prevalence of this creationist view of the origin of humans is essentially unchanged from 30 years ago, when Gallup first asked the question. About a third of Americans believe that humans evolved, but with God’s guidance.” And only “15% say humans evolved, but that God had no part in the process.”

With these numbers, it’s highly probable a GOP president would mean America would be headed by a science denying creationists.

Big Oil billionaires, GOP lobbyists, creationists are all science deniers

Get it? There’s a clear connection between creationism, climate-science denial, conservative politicians and free-market capitalism. And it all comes together in Oklahoma’s GOP Sen. James Inhofe, author of “The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future.” Inhofe relies on divine guidance: “God’s still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous.”

Moreover, creationists preachers are not bound by Pope Francis; they rely on the Bible teaching preached by their local ministers on Sunday. So no matter what Francis says about global warming destroying the planet in his forthcoming encyclical, those 120 million creationists have more faith that “God’s in charge” ... not the UN’s 2,500 fallible human scientists ... nor a bunch of liberal politicians ... nor an activist Catholic pope who is aligned with “extremists who favor widespread population control and wealth redistribution,” according Fox News. Besides, many of them got jobs in the oil fields and states like Oklahoma need the tax revenue from the oil industry.

Still, Nye trudges on against ever-increasing odds, an idealist, another like Don Quixote: “There are fundamentals of evolution. There are principles. There are things about founders and bottlenecking of genes and altruism and costly signaling and just germs. There are just things about evolution that we should all be aware of, the way we’re aware of where electricity comes from, or that you have cells with mitochondria ... a lot of people who have very little training in evolution.”

Unfortunately, Big Oil doesn’t give a hoot about “the fundamentals of evolution.” Never will. They got Big Jim Inhofe, the GOP, and a trillion in revenue to protect.

Sorry, folks, but the “mutant capitalist” dogma really is mutating, rapidly, a virus that is metastasizing into a mental pandemic that is undermining future economic growth not just for creation kids but all Americans. Northwestern University economist Robert Gordon hit the nail on the head describing six “headwinds” in his NBER paper, “Is U.S. Economic Growth Over?” where he argues that by 2100 these headwinds will slow America’s economic growth to a pre-Industrial Revolution level below 1% GDP.

Well, now we have a seventh headwind — creation theology trumps evolution science. Yes, a new generation of creationist kids who believe dinosaurs and humans coexisted. And soon that science denialism will backfire, slowing our GDP growth dramatically, contributing to the end of our so-called democracy, our capitalist market economy and civilization as we knew it. Why? Because we lost our moral compass.