Then the question is whay are some people obsessed with Creationism?
I think a quote from #49 is enlightening:
people who want to destroy or at least seriously diminish our nations advancements in science education.
That is a paranoid point of view and quite ludicrous.
Just like Cindy Sheehan and Harry Belafonte blame all the world's ills on Bush, some people seem to think Discovery Institute or creationists are the devil incarnate.
Like my initial post on this thread, yes Hillary, it is all a vast right wing conspiracy.
One of my comments was also going to be, "Are you going to attibute the prorocols of the elders of creationism" to them soon?
It's not paranoid to point out that the hard right (of which I am a sometimes member) has been bashing science for decades now. Rush Limbaugh, who I agree with on many subjects, is a primary culprit, because he doesn't understand science at all, which even he admits.
The primary bashing subject has been environmental "science", because that branch of science has been totally corrupted by the left for political gain. That some conservatives have now begun to attack science in general and evolution in particular is not paranoid, it's just the facts.
Should we not be concerned with an organized effort to lower educational standards?
Should we not be concerned when such a group is caught lying to advance that goal?
Because some people are attempting to teach it in schools. Try to teach astrology in schools, and see what happens.