Evolution Hatred: Bias Against Intellectuals?

The people who brought the nation the Scopes Monkey" trial are back with a new advertising pitch to swap out science and replace it with religion. After the incredible smash hit single, "I'm no kin to a Monkey, a Monkey no kin to me," are back with more than moral values, heck these people know more science than Dr. Science!

As Laura Parker of Ann Coulter hiring 'Merica Today notes:

Nearly 80 years after the famous "Monkey Trial," in which Tennessee teacher John Scopes was convicted of teaching evolution in violation of state law, 24 states this year have seen efforts to change the way evolution is taught.

And because of a requirement in the federal No Child Left Behind law that states must review science standards over the next two years, the debate is likely to intensify. That requirement provides an opportunity for critics of evolution to help reshape how it is taught in public schools.

The battlegrounds include small school districts as well as state school boards that write policy for every district in the state. Among them:

•In western Wisconsin, the small Grantsburg School District now requires that alternative theories of evolution be taught.

•In Ohio, the state school board passed a measure that encourages the teaching of evolution and "intelligent design," a hypothesis that says life is so complex that some intelligent force was responsible.

•In Kansas, the defeat this month of a "pro-science" incumbent on the state school board by a candidate who had questioned evolution has shifted the balance of power on the 10-member board and ensures that the issue will come up again. The board ended the teaching of evolution in 1999, then reversed that decision after a subsequent election. It has been deadlocked since.

Debates over religion, science and natural phenomena are not limited to schools and evolution. The bookstore at Grand Canyon National Park sells Grand Canyon: A Different View by Tom Vail, a Colorado River guide. The book says the Grand Canyon was created during Noah's flood, not through millennia of erosion by the Colorado River.

The fight over evolution is heating up as the country tries to come to terms with the role of religion in government. The American public remains divided. In a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll of 1,105 people conducted Nov. 19-21, 48% said religion has too much political influence in American life, and 40% said it has too little influence. Seven percent said religion has about the right amount of political influence. The poll's margin of error was +/—3 percentage points.

The debate over evolution has itself evolved. It is no longer a clear-cut argument between creationists who support the Bible's version of the origin of life and evolutionists who back Charles Darwin's theory that complex life forms, including humans, developed through genetic changes over millions of years. Now, those challenging Darwin want evolution taught as a theory whose validity is questioned. They also want alternative views taught so students are exposed to all views.

Oh come on, alternate views is not what these people want. Theocracy? Christian Caliphate? Holy America empire? These are closer to the truth. What I believe is going on here is an attack against intellecturalism. An attack on the culture of the mind in favor of fundamentalism. Now that the religious nutwing have hired their man George, they feel empowered. Heaven help us indeed.