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Thanks for the ping!

I agree with your frustration that the journalists are equating [political] conservatism with support for Intelligent Design. IMHO, it may well be part of the Democrats' ongoing campaign in the media. I say this because the word "conservatism" is being used more and more frequently and a staged event such as the above seems to float to the top of the news cycle.

IOW, the above forum was just as "staged" as the evolutionists fear the State Board's forum will be - but this one has the odor of being staged for the press rather than the press, in the course of normal reporting, covering a forum held for a productive other purpose.

In sum, this forum smacks of a "public relations" event and thus, you, PatrickHenry, have finally convinced me that the ID v evolution debate will become a political football. Not because it is political or should be, but because the Democrats are making it one.

If we are right about this turning political, the liberal candidates will themselves raise the issue in the next general election campaign for national office under the presumption that the intelligentsia will shame the religious into voting Democrat. On that point they may well again have misunderestimated the Christians like they did in letting homosexual rights onto the front burner. IOW, it just might backfire on them.

Also - as another indication of it turning political, the above journalist overstated the case on the evolution side when he said (emphasis mine):

Luckey was preaching to the choir during a five-hour forum that featured scientists, teachers and politicians who argued in favor of teaching students evolution because it is the foundation of science, knowledge of which will be needed to compete for jobs in the growing bioscience industry.

Evolution may well be considered a foundation to biological sciences but it could not hardly be a foundation for all the sciences.

But overstatements such as this are fairly common to political posturing with the press, e.g. the Democrats' overstating the "nuclear option" on shutting down filibusters on Judicial appointments as if it would apply to all of the Senate's business, frightening seniors into thinking the Republicans want to take their Social Security checks away, etc.