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Actually, if you have read Mr Reed's other columns, he has little love for 'snake handlers' as well.
If I would presume to speak for Mr Reed, he is expressing disgust at the conduct of certain parties who are glomming onto this Evolution-ID business to further an agenda ( and if you are honest, I suspect you're smart enough to know this ). I have read nothing from him that indicates he thinks 'God did it'.
I would also suspect that he has no problems with real concerns of an 'encroaching theocracy', if such a thing from fevered imaginations were true. I would as well.
His concern is similar to mine--the striking parallel of using a central authority to dictate what, when, and how things will be taught with the actions of leftists and activist courts.
Just reading threads on FR related to the Evo-ID thing ( which is very seldom ), one would have to admit that if the conduct of the posters on one side is a sampling of the general behavior of fellow travllers elsewhere, Mr Reed's assessment is correct.

Just reading threads on FR related to the Evo-ID thing ( which is very seldom ), one would have to admit that if the conduct of the posters on one side is a sampling of the general behavior of fellow travllers elsewhere, Mr Reed's assessment is correct.

Agreed. Methinks the Freeper Darwin Brain Trust doest protest too much. The reactiony s**t hits the fan pretty quickly here and selective perception tends to rear its head... Reed's not even addressing a specific person believing in evolution or the merits of ID. He is simply stating that evolution is a sacrement to the left and used as a political tool in a far more egregious manner than most others.