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Any bets on how long before THIS professor, a card carrying conservative if there ever were one, gets his face beaten by a couple of "good ol' boys" drivin' a pickup truck, for speaking out against inserting religiously-motivated unscientific claptrap into public school science books and characterizing creationists as "lunatics"?

This professor is typical of the science-literate conservatives who routinely defend evolution (and all of science) on our threads. It's perfectly possible -- and quite rational -- to be a conservative and to have an appreciation of science. I've got a little essay on that subject at the start of my homepage. Excerpt:

Science appeals to the conservative mind for the same reasons that free enterprise does. It's reality-based, it focuses on what works, it rejects failed concepts, and it produces results.

The aberrational mindset is to be anti-science. Nothing "conservative" about that.