http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31521-2005Jan23.htmlWITH THEIR SLICK Web sites, pseudo-academic conferences and savvy public relations, the proponents of "intelligent design" -- a "theory" that challenges the validity of Darwinian evolution -- are far more sophisticated than the creationists of yore...
Perhaps partly as a result, a startling 55 percent of Americans -- and 67 percent of those who voted for President Bush -- do not, according to a recent CBS poll, believe in evolution at all...
In states as diverse as Wisconsin, South Carolina, Kansas, Montana, Arkansas and Mississippi, school boards are arguing over whether to include "intelligent design" in their curriculums...
To teach intelligent design as science in public schools is a clear violation of the principle of separation of church and state....It also violates principles of common sense. In fact, the breadth and extent of the anti-evolutionary movement that has spread almost unnoticed across the country should force American politicians to think twice about how their public expressions of religious belief are beginning to affect education and science.A nice blast at the religious nuts who are trying to replace science books with the bible. I'm glad the Post sees this as the threat that it is. I suggest forwarding it to any of your political representatives who suck up to the Fundies.