re: #678 MandyManners

NOT ALL FUNDAMENTALISTS ARE ANTI-SCIENCE. The Kid’s school is very fundamental but, science is taught from third grade and up. In fact, he’s already learning about fossils and their dates are given as fact. He’s also been taught about carbon-dating.

This is a crucial point, but it is the creationism/ID proponents get the most attention from the media, for any number of reasons.

A hypothesis:
With billions in vouchers at stake, the leaders of the ID crowd not only expect to lose their fight for the public school curriculum, they will profit from doing so. The fight itself generates plenty of publicity, most of it wrapped up in pithy little sound-bites and easily digestible claims.