I have to say, I’m just not seeing the creationism issue as a major albatross afflicting the GOP. The electoral question is whether the people who are voting against the GOP now would change their vote if all GOP politicians became clearly or vocally anti-creationist. I’m doubting it.

And for clarity’s sake I do not believe in creationist ideology as an ideology… and I certainly don’t think it should be part of a science curriculum. The proper place to discuss existential philosophies is in existential philosophy class, not science.

(Though I think a History of Science class that dealt with creationist challenges would be interesting!)