Thank you realcatholicmen.

You said what I wanted to say, and did it better. What these people don't realize is that the fundies are still a fairly large and united group. They are also somewhat disenchanted with the Republicans right now.

If the people posting on these blogs want to make changes in areas like monopolism, net-neutrality, copyright reform, etc., then they should be making friends with the fundies instead of alienating them.

Like I said before, the truth will always win in an open environment. Why not engage the fundies in a spirit of openness, and you may change some of their minds, and get them to join you on some of the issues that are going to be really effecting us and our democracy in the very near future.

(And it would be irresponsible to teach every crackpot theory of evolution that has been suggested, when the world scientific community has been vetting the current one for at least 100 years and found it to be unimpeachable.)

The "current one" and I use that phrase very loosely, has been evolving for all of those 100 years, and is far from being agreed upon among the believers(of sciencism).

But my point is, if it is truly unimpeachable, then it has nothing to fear from a bunch of crackpot fundies.

Long live the Sciencism thought police!!

They are alive and well and posting on boingboing.

So I guess when someone asks just to be heard, they are craming their ideas down everyone elses throats, but when we are only given one theory of origins, that is not craming ideas down peoples throats.

Wow, Texas is a big state in physical area, but it is not representative of the main stream of education in the US. You people are freaking out as if Creationism had some kind of over-arching power against the truth.

I believe in evolution as a process, not as a force. But it is hysterical to say that the Fundies are in control and we are screwed.

The Creationists just want a fair hearing, and in America that's exactly what they should get. The truth will always prevail when all sides are heard. Let's keep the marketplace of ideas open. The only thing that can come from shutting down an ideology is that the prevailing one at the time, in this case Darwinian Evolution, will take a wrong turn that resists correction because it is taboo to question it.

Wake up. Creationist are being shutdown for their ideas at a rate of a thousand to one for every evolutionist who is silenced. And they are being shut down, not by scientific discourse, but rather by an unquestioning, hyper-reactive, culture of sciencism that resembles the Spanish inquisition more than an open marketplace of ideas that it is supposed to aspire to.

Don't believe me? Just read through the posts again and look at the bile being spewn at the Fundies.

Thanks for adding the comments.