re: #46 Basho

This is about the defense of humanity’s search for the truth. Centuries of people sacrificed their lives to accumulate the knowledge we have today. Evolution is one of the most wonderful discoveries…

And if the world goes to hell, yes, defending that knowledge will be high on our radar screen…

No need to be so melodramatic.

Darwin didn’t “sacrifice his life”, he lived to be over 70 years old, and saw his theory widely accepted by the public during his lifetime.

As a scientific theory, evolution its pretty well established. Evolutionary theory is not going to “go away” no matter how much Creationism is pushed in schools. The knowlege isn’t going to be lost; at WORST you’ll just have fewer members of the public accepting it.

As a political issue at the Federal level, it remains to be seen how important this is in the next election cycle, but George Bush got elected twice as POTUS, even though he waffled on this issue of teaching “intelligent design” in schools.