It's just over thirty years since I got my teaching certification and was made aware of a concerted effort to turn back the clock and attempt to get creationism legitimized as science. Thirty freaking years later and they not only are still at it, but when foiled in their attempts to replace real science with their religious propaganda, they have gone the route of supporting politicians who will change the law in their favor. These same politicans who are attempting to dismantle fair elections, separation of church and state, fair wages and the unions that help ensure them, proper oversight of financial institutions, and fair and equal treatment of women and minorities.

Do I find this alarming... you bet I do. If the USA becomes a democracy in name only, who's going to be next?

If these guys kept to themselves, the way my Amish neighbors do, I would just shrug my shoulders and it would be live and let live. They have their belief system and I have mine...

but that is not the case... and I for one am not about to roll over and let it happen on my watch. I know it's useless to convince pete of anything, but if I can point out the fallicies to others I will make that effort. There is a bigger picture out there that is being obscured by the "trees".


taken from wiki:

The Creation Science Movement (CSM, founded in 1932 as the Evolution Protest Movement) is a British Creationist organisation which lays claim to the title "the oldest creationist movement in the world". It was a member of the Evangelical Alliance until its resignation in 2008, and is a registered charity.

But while fundamentalists have always been hostile to evolution, the modern creationist movement in North America got its start in the 1960s, primarily due to the influence of an evangelical author named Henry Morris. Morris' 1964 book The Genesis Flood argued, among other things, that Noah's flood happened just as the Bible describes it -- in other words, it was reasonable to believe that eight people could care for a floating zoo containing at least two members of every species on Earth.