re: #298 Sharmuta

Indeed- it is the Big Lie that we have to accept them as our political allies.

The problem is bigger than just getting rid of the minority of hardcore activist creationists. The meme has grown in conservative culture that evolution is a leftist plot to secularize the US and attack traditional Judeo-Christian values, and ID is the opportunity to fight back. I think this idea has grown pretty big, thanks to things like Ben Stein’s Expelled, and it is becoming de rigueur. Imagine trying to throw the pro-life faction out of the GOP.