Pavel Kabrt, a Czech who served on the committee that organized the event, said the capital of the ex-communist country _ now a highly secular republic _ was a fitting backdrop for the debate.
"Communism is gone, but its main pillar, Darwin's theory, is still here ... the evolution theory is taught as dogma here starting in nursery school," said Kabrt, an electrician who lectures on intelligent design at Czech high schools.
With the way even the president of Cornell University has decided to get involved in this by making a major speech decrying it, I have to say that the way I'm seeing this now is fully explained by -
(Scientific Community):(ID) :: (Catholic Church):(Copernicus)
The scientific community really has to get down and dirty involved in this discussion, with facts and figures instead of obstruction and name calling, or their battle is lost.