Have I mentioned lately that I’m glad I live in Canada and not jesus land to the South? The amount of power evangelicals in the US wield is amazing/disturbing and the Islamic movement should take notice because it’s a lot more effective than what they’re doing. Anyway I feel that this commentary from Lawrence Krauss is something that should be read by everyone.

The most recent and blatant example of the sorry condition of state education boards comes from Texas, whose education board is now debating whether high-school texts should be required to discuss the “strengths and weaknesses of evolution”.

These are the latest code words being promoted by PR central for Intelligent Design, aka the Discovery Institute in Seattle, in an attempt to undermine the teaching of evolution. (The same body also distributed a petition in various states to pressure schools to “teach the controversy” – its earlier slogan – in a campaign designed to suggest that evolution was somehow scientifically controversial.)
Source: NewScientist

With the ID movement essentially dead in its attempt to get it taught in schools (lost a few court cases), it’s doing the next best thing which is attacking the integrity of evolution. If you don’t think this is a big deal you’re wrong because what we teach the younger generation will matter when it’s their turn to run the world. Fight this nonsense whenever you can because our society does depend on future generations knowing and having the best information. Let’s not pass on fairy tales with no real world relevance.