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Some monsters look to the Bible to justify their monstrosities, and some look to Darwin. In either case, the problem is neither the Bible nor Darwin, but the monsters themselves.

That's at least two us who believe this. I would go further and say that monsters in general have no interest in ideas at all, but simply do focus groups to determine what ideology will promote their hold on power. This can differ from place to place and decade to decade.

It is a mistake on both sides, however, to think their ideas can't be hijacked.

Now I offer this as an olive branch, risking being creamed by my own "side": Right now, the only legal public ideology in America is science, so that is the ideology being appealed to by statists of all kinds, not because anything they advocate will improve life, but because it helps them consolodate power. I can see how evolution can be seen as a symbol of all the excesses of social engineering in public schools.

Funny thing is, science has been under attack from the multiculti left as much if not more than it has from the fundamentalist right, and the two have sometimes cooperated. One example is Vine Deloria's 'Red Earth, White Lies', which disputes radioactive dating and the migration of Indians from the new world, and embraces Velikovsky, much as we've seen YECs do. Deloria is an icon of the multiculturalists (he wrote 'Custer died for your sins')

Here's one review of a very good book on the subject

http://www.mugu.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/Issues/science/HIGHER7.html

And here's an old friend some of you will recognize

http://access.digex.com/~medved/Catastrophism.html

Right now, the only legal public ideology in America is science, . . . I can see how evolution can be seen as a symbol of all the excesses of social engineering in public schools.

Perceptive.