Don't worry, there's plenty more fight where that came from.. which is what seems to have so many of you worried beyond merely the poll numbers. Only 6 percent of Bush supporters (those in power) actually believe an undiluted form of evolution story. 6 percent. 55 percent of Americans in general don't believe it at all. And only 13 percent believe it unadultered. The only way you get anywhere is among those who dilute it and may largely be saying variation counts for something - which doesn't really help evolution except disengenuously so. That is 27 percent of Americans.. The wishy washy "undecideds" as it were. If after 150 years your best numbers are in the undecided column, you're screwed.
And the validity of scientific theories is established by poll numbers?
The GOP governor of Ohio and a GOP senator from PA apparently don't think so, as evidenced by their tossing ID overboard:
Santorum: Don't put intelligent design in classroom
which is what seems to have so many of you worried beyond merely the poll numbers.
If ID is such a force to be reckoned with, how do you explain the complete thrashing that the incumbent pro-ID school board members received from pro-evolution challengers, in a county that went 64% for President Bush?