[Stultis]

Socialism. Evolution. Global warming. And the list of liberal scams goes on and on

Yep, and creationists are right there with the lefties, demanding "alternative views" be taught in the interest of "balance," "fairness" or "diversity," rather than standing for high and hard-nosed academic standards, like they should (and as the same individuals generally do wrt to history, mathematics, and any other subject). It does not represent "fairness" or "balance" to teach a doctrine which has failed to earn standing in professional scholarship as on a par with one that has. It represents intellectual affirmative action.

[Doctor Stochastic]

In that sense, the Creationists are just the twin of the PostModernDeconstructionists. Both claim to have "superior knowledge" that ist to be used even when in conflict with scientific endeavor. Sometimes it seems the the scientists must be correct if what they are doing is attacked by both the Left and the Right.

[=Intervention=]

" It does not represent "fairness" or "balance" to teach a doctrine which has failed to earn standing in professional scholarship as on a par with one that has. "

When you run the educational establishments, your will is law. How favorable do you suppose die-hard leftists that inhabit the NEA, and virtually all organs of the state-educational apparatus are, towards anything remotely resembling intelligent design? They are victims of their prejudices, and they are blinded by the zeitgeist of dialectical materialism. Of course they wouldn't permit anything to be published that counteracts their views! And if you really, honestly, believe that science journal editors pursue truth disinterestedly, then I have oceanfront property for you...