The increasingly widespread growth of ignorance, mysticism, and outright luddite stupidity is a threat to all advanced societies. The particular flavors within all that ignorance are not particularly important because they are all fought with the same tools - knowledge, reason, and the continuing advancement of science.
That's the reason for the effort to rid American academia of evolutionism.
For the lowdown on Chuck Darwin, stupidest white man of all time and his BS theory, and on the continuing efforts of feebs like Steve Gould and Niles Eldredge to keep the charade going for another generation: