[WhiteyAppleseed]

I have no quarrel with those who believe in intelligent design. It has appeal as a way to grasp the unknowable why of our existence. But it is only a belief. When advocates push intelligent design as a legitimate scientific alternative to Darwinian explanations of evolution, it is time to push back.

The creation-evolution debate helps illustrate our dependence on science, nurtured by a media controlled by others.

If we were to use other terms for the above quote from the article, we would have something like:I have no quarrel with those who believe in global warming. It has appeal as a way to control property. But it is only a belief.

Two hundred years ago, the founding fathers intended a separation of Church and State; James Madison wrote, “religion and Government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together.” Today, if Madison was around, he would say, Science and Government will exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together.

The founding fathers knew from history that religion was misused to control people, to stifle liberties. The threat of damnation was used to indulge the whims of those in power.

Today, the threat of extinction, the threat of harm, based on the misuse of science is used to accomplish what religion cannot because of the First Amendment.

Science has ceased to be enlightening; it is time to separate Science and State.

[ConsistentLibertarian]

It's bad enough that economic conservatives get lumped in with social conservatives who want to tell people how to have sex. But when the social conservatives start arguing for the dumbing down of america, life for economic conservatives will only become more difficult.