This topic is important to many of us because we believe that modern conservatism, as a reality-based political position, should be stongly on the side of science.
As Barry Goldwater put it:
I cherish a day when our children once again will restore as heroes the sort of men and women who - unafraid and undaunted - pursue the truth, strive to cure disease, subdue and make fruitful our natural environment and produce the inventive engines of production, science, and technology.
We feel this issue is critical to future national compeditiveness, and we object to anti-science notions becoming associated with conservative politics.
Furthermore, many of us believe that creationism/intelligent design is not only bad science, but bad theology as well.
Your home page is very interesting (and contains several kernels of truth).