Why Are People so Afraid of the LHC Causing a Black Hole?

In case you aren't a nerd or right-wing bible thumper, there is a new particle collider in town. The Large Hadron Collider in Geneva is officially smashing particles together at unheard of speeds. I'm sure it'll be years before we start getting any revolutionary results, but scientists are predicting some pretty important discoveries from this. Every time they make a better collider, we gain more knowledge about the structure of sub-atomic particles. We also gain more insight and verification for the latest in theories on how the universe works. All great things.
Well, not so great if you're a bible-thumper. I'm not saying we should all blindly believe science and discount the stories in the bible. Everyone has a right to believe whatever they want and express those beliefs. They can also do whatever they feel necessary to support and prove those beliefs. The problem I have with bible-thumpers is that they do whatever they can to stifle the progress of science. They seem to feel that because they take the bible as undeniable fact, everyone else should as well and that anyone doing any research on alternate theories is just doing the devil's work and must be stopped. Why? They don't stop you from trying to validate the info in the bible. In fact, the history and science communities often help to find proof to support the bible. They just want to find the truth about what happened in those years without passing judgement on the religious aspect of it.
But I digress...
The real fun is all the people that are so sure that the LHC will create a black hole that will destroy the planet and maybe beyond. There were actually protests and plenty of news coverage as the LHC was being finished on that very topic. Suddenly these people who have rejected all of science's work to this point can understand it better than these physics experts. Odd how that works. And it's really just a moot point. If the LHC does create a black hole that eats the planet, no one will even notice. There would be no apocalypse, no sulfur and brimstone raining down upon us, no locust invasion. Things would all end in a microsecond. If you were a bible-thumper and lived by The Book your whole life, you'll be up in heaven saying "I told you so". Probably standing right next to me while I just shrug my shoulders and say "wow, really didn't see that coming." So what's the big deal? If God really did create the world and everything in it, he granted us this insatiable curiosity and the intelligence to devise ways to slam protons together at ridiculous speeds. Wouldn't we be going against his will if we didn't do this?! Think about it.
Me, I tend to believe what some of the smartest people on the planet say. And they say the world won't end. I also want to know if string theory holds up to more findings or if quantum physics continues its reign on top. Do we really live in a universe of 10 or more dimensions instead of just the 4 we know of? And what's up with the Higgs boson? I want some answers, and the LHC may get me them.