>>You're wrong on this one, Professor! The (mythical) conservative war against science is nothing more than A) conservative opposition to human embryo farming and B) a very mild request that alternatives to materialistic evolution be given a hearing in science class.
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Its a war all right but its not a conservative war. Its a war by a subset of fundamentalist social conservatives - they are disproportionately noisy and are harming everyone around them, fellow Christians, fellow conservatives, science, education, children and American competitiveness.
The really irritating thing about this is that they are well meaning good people so I can't really even be mad at them but they are doing great harm.
And the funny part is that they leave their children in public schools when they could start their own Bible schools and teach the kids creationism to their hearts content.
Of course if these kids start reading books on biology, they're going to start asking satanic questions ...