The "ruling dogma" for 16 centuries had to do with a "divine right of kings" as interpreted by one church. The USA, coming after the Reformation, threw off this Old World stuff of hierarchy and blind faith without real evidence. The Bible never mentions democracy or individual rights.
Evolution is grand unifying concept of nature, and includes natural law. Evolution deniers are like all those long forgotten on the wrong side of history.
Yep. The Kansas school board retained an expert from Turkey, who had helped to destroy science in his own country.
It's rather like the fact that Mussolini and Hitler recruited Communists much more easily than they recruited free-market classical liberals.
Actually the first model government for Israel, had no king other than God. And God advised Israel strongly, against having a king. The men took counsel together. When there was a problem, families would send representatives to the council. So there is a Biblical model of a republic.
Whether or not the Bible mentions individual rights, our founding fathers certainly agreed that our rights emanated from God as a quick reading of the Declaration of Independence will amply demonstrate.