[Joe Bonforte]

So let me get this straight. We've got a war against Islamic fanaticism to fight. We've got the entire institution of marriage under attack. The government is growing at ridiculous rates....

And the creationist fanatics would rather spend their time getting indignant over the teaching of evolution - a body of science even a majority of church-going Americans believe is correct in its essentials.

Hey, you guys go ahead and play in this space if you like. But I'm telling you - it does not help your mission. It just makes you look like kooks, and makes it more difficult to advance the rest of the conservative agenda.

But go ahead. You obviously enjoy it.

[Betaille]

"it does not help your mission."

You are missing the point. Nobody is forcing creationism to be taught as fact. People just don't want darwinism taught as fact either... darwinism was by Darwin's own admission merely "theory", not fact. Parents should not be forced to send their kids to school that are contrary to the morals parents teach their kids.

[Coleus]

The war started in our schools when the secular humanists took over and are winning today. I'm not really involved in the argument which I see on FR on these types of post but don't really understand your rationale of yours trying to compare a war with Islam with letting parents having local control over their schools. How are you fighting the war on Islam, the institution of marriage and big government?

[MegaSilver]

And the creationist fanatics would rather spend their time getting indignant over the teaching of evolution - a body of science even a majority of church-going Americans believe is correct in its essentials.

FWIW, most of the people in my church circles believe in an *old* Earth, but not evolution.

[RightWingNilla]

Hey, you guys go ahead and play in this space if you like. But I'm telling you - it does not help your mission. It just makes you look like kooks, and makes it more difficult to advance the rest of the conservative agenda.

Well said.

[keats5]

So everyone who questions anything about Darwinism is a creationist fanatic? Darwin cannot be questioned, ever, no matter what?

Who's the fanatic?

[DaGman]

"And the creationist fanatics would rather spend their time getting indignant over the teaching of evolution - a body of science even a majority of church-going Americans believe is correct in its essentials."

Another Scopes Trial is inevitable at this rate.

[Celantro]

>And the creationist fanatics would rather spend their time getting indignant over the teaching of evolution

It's unbelievable, isn't it? Hey! Why don't we just deny ALL science while we're at it? I mean, that Newton thing where an apple falls from a tree and demonstrates gravity? Says who? Can you SEE gravity?

No use getting excited though. It is as it is and it will not change.