Air Prophet is an interesting and rare "type specimen" of an endangered species: a first-world educated, religious delusionary.
He and his ilk are, as evidenced by this thread, in the throes of a generational "last gasp" of proselytizing their nonsensical, and let's be frank, just plain stupid ideas. Their worldview wears a burqa so narrow in it's field of view as to deny broad swathes of
REALITY, such as evolution and fundamental aspects of geomorphology and cosmology.
Unfortunately for religion's "misguided missiles", they weren't able to shake the virus of faith due to their relative youth and inability to reject irrationality after they passed their "indoctrination V1". For now, they stand to lose too much by publicly acknowledging the foolishness of their fairy tales: Loss of face, potential alienation from their religious social circle (the most interesting thing about Christians is how un-Christian they can be!) and the embarrassment that comes with admitting what waste of time your rantings and ravings were.
What's even more sobering is they will get front row seats in the saddest show on earth: watching their highly educated, unbiased and worldly kids drift away from their myths and fables. It's one thing to have your bigoted and anachronistic faith lampooned and ridiculed by anonymous Internet patrons - but it would be another (quite terrible) thing to see those you love the most reject the embarrassing superstitions that form the basis of your core beliefs.
Secularism, rationality and plain ole logic are (thankfully) on the rise in every civilized society. Scandanavia, probably the most secular group of countries in the world, is a beacon of peace and relative prosperity (discounting the odd right wing Christian nut job in Norway of course). Australia and New Zealand, once traditionally thought of as "Christian nations" (whatever that means!) are now comprised in the majority of secularists. In fact, religious nutters are sure to get quite a shock when the latest Oz census details are released next year revealing just how non-religious the nation is.
The reason for this is simple: we're smarter than our ancestors. Today's average 5 year old know more about their world than smartest "biblical scholar". Here's an example of dark ages logic (bear in mind this kind of reasoning took place a thousand years AFTER your magic book was written!):