The kids in the pic look like they are Japanese. In Asia, creationism is look upon as a quaint myth. People that believe in creationism, in Japan, are typically though of as having meantal health problems. The point of the photo poster was that Kansas is leading its students to the new Dark Ages, where ignorance and superstition replace education and thinking. I've been to some fundamentalist churches where it is preached that it is better to be uneducated, ignorant and going to Heaven than to be educated and damned to Hell for learning and believing anti-Christian ideas. This is the type of mentallity that rejects evolution, or any other scientific idea that isn't scripturally sound. When these people get into power, as they have on the Kansas State Education Board, they will do whatever it takes to force change the cirriculum to reflect their fundamentalist beliefs. Without well educated kids, the U.S. will lose her place in the world as a technological superpower. A country that bases it core beliefs on strict fundamentalism cannot survive as a strong country. Just look at the Islamic states to see what happens when religious fervor trumps sound education. Over there, the Koran is seen as the source of all education and wisdom. And look at how backward and barbaric those places are. That's why creationism is a cancer in the conservative movement.
You are giving the creationists way too much credit. They HAVE NOT said they want the teaching of the theory of evolution stopped. They want it questioned. Why are the evos so freaked out by that? And, believe it or not, there are Christians who are also scientists, though the vast majority of scientists admit to being atheists. And, by the way, how much evolution do you think is currently taught in US high schools now? Do you think there are a lot of qualified science teachers teaching in high schools? Do you have kids in public high schools now?
Cancer kills people...believing that the world was created does not kill.
When you did visit church do you remember learning about Israel? Your comment, "A country that bases it core beliefs on strict fundamentalism cannot survive as a strong country." does not make sense if you simply remember how Israel prospered when it obeyed and praised God.
Are you simply an Easter, Christmas and funeral church attender? I'm trying to get an understanding of your worldview.