As the dependent of a Kansas Science Teacher, I feel it is my responsibility to splash a little cold water of Reality upon the over hyped war that Science is waging against Intelligent Design.
I have yet to meet a member of the “whole Christian Fascist movement in the United States that has power and prominence in the government, from the Bush regime on down.” As a mater of fact, I bump into more Nuts from the other end, such as those who say "Evolution is a concept that applies to all sciences, from astronomy to chemistry to geology to biology to anthropology.” Now how you can get Evolution to work on Geology or even Chemistry is far beyond my limited knowledge, but sounds a little far-fetched. Even the name acknowledges the basis behind it: Theory of Evolution. Not the Absolute Fact of Evolution. Theory.
Admittedly this article appears from a website that believes the Bush administration are war criminals, and advocates that Communism just needs another couple hundred million people to die and they’ll get it right this time. However I have heard similar arguments frothing through our Kansas newspapers with similar themes, all of which boil down to the end of Civilization as we know it should our children ever get the tiniest hint that the entire Universe, all billions and billions of stars, planets, oceans, whales and the occasional human are not just accidental random combinations.
--Georg