After reading this piece by a Christian conservative columnist, I just have to wonder: WWDDD (What Would Dr. Dino Do)? If Kent Hovind wants to make the big bucks, he should open up a chain of ID schools and lead an exodus from the public school system.
A win-win for everyone. Public schools could teach real science without interference, Dr. Dino could teach for tuition, and Christian parents would be happy to pay for the replacement of science courses with religious beliefs.
Neither parents nor hovind are looking to replace science. Science isn't the issue. It's opinion and fiction being pawned off as science that is the problem. Saying it's a science problem is just plain dishonest. Evolution is a religion - I'd suggest if you want to teach your religion, you teach *it* in private schools and leave everyone else alone. It doesn't belong in the schools, much less in intelligent conversation. It's junk/pseudo science hiding behind real science and attempting to use real science to pawn itself off as the same in absence of anything useful of it's own. It is fiction. It is spin.