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To: Tom C who wrote (123682)	7/6/2005 9:49:43 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 794048

It is specifically about getting the government's imprimatur on their side. People who just want their side to win,

To: Tom C who wrote (123682)	7/7/2005 12:17:10 AM
From: neolib	Respond to of 794048

People who just want their side to win, even those not committed to the 7-day thing are willing to throw science down the drain to win elections I'm sure there is some such manipulation, thats basically what the gay marriage push was this last time around. However, the evolution/creation split is more difficult to exploit. While a sizeable portion of conservatives would cheer kicking evolution out of K-12, there are enough others that would squirm at the prospects. The pending legal issues in Dover, PA are a real laugh. The latest is the Discovery Institute (they of the "Wedge" strategy) has written a letter petitioning the PA Legislature NOT to mandate teaching ID in K-12. It would appear they have finally woken up to the fact that this would invite more scrutiny than their flimsy theory can withstand. Instead, they just want to sow FUD about evolution by "teaching the controversy", which of course does not exist. I think the real reason this issue is coming around again is that conservatives truly think they are rolling back the odious liberal thought (Marx, Freud, Darwin). They lump them all together as corrosive to religious faith, and since Marx has bitten the big one, and Freud is on the defensive wrt to various issues, surely Darwin was a crock as well, and victory is at hand. The irony of it all is that with cheap DNA sequencing finally here, it was one heck of a poor time to do so. One of the reasons I wish I could live a few hundred years is to see how that story plays out for fundamentalists. It will be one heck of a crackup for many individuals.