re: #78 goanna

I can see how that has happened in the US. That doesn’t seem to explain the position of Australian conservative politicians though, since the religious right types don’t have much power. Generally, the intelligent design types are in a minority party that have no seats in the house of reps and only 1 seat in the senate (of course this guy doesn’t accept global warming and has recently returned from one of those conservative think-tank conferences in the US).

Well- you wondered where the meme started, and I would say “follow the money”. It gets latched on from there, but where it started is a larger anti-science agenda than just American politics. Anti-science is quite global.