[pawdoggie]

Plenty of evos are ridiculed and most seem able to handle it. We are becoming a nation of wimps.

That may be perfectly true, but it's not my point. I don't see how an argument over "intelligent design" at this time is going to keep the Democrats in Congress from exposing us to another 9-11 attack. If anything, by opening conservatives (to include most Republicans) up to ridicule (however undeserved) the ID debate detracts from our ability to make the points that need to be made in the War on Terror: "why should anyone believe you, you think the earth is 6,000 years old?" We don't need to have this debate at this moment in time. GIVE IT A REST, okay?

[truthfinder9]

Actually most of the design supporters don't think Earth is "6,000 years old." Read their books, they are not too fond of the Ken Ham's of the world.

[mlc9852]

No one is going to "give it a rest". We have just begun to fight. How you equate this argument with terrorism escapes me.

[atlaw]

...the ID debate detracts from our ability to make the points that need to be made in the War on Terror: "why should anyone believe you, you think the earth is 6,000 years old?" We don't need to have this debate at this moment in time. GIVE IT A REST, okay?

Well, gee. I guess that rules out the debates over Amtrak funding, Colorado River watershed rights, the EPA's new soot emissions standards, and my nephew's selection for his piano recital too.

Then again, we're adults. And most of us can handle more than one thought at a time.