Fighting God-policy

After yesterday's debate on The Balance of Creation over at Rob Corr's, I was interested to find this post in my Nation LiveBookmarks folder this morning. Katrina vanden Heuvel outlines the systematic infiltration of Creationism into US education policy and the "rightwing assault on the Enlightenment [which] extends well beyond putting creationism on equal footing with evolutionary science".

The article ends with a warning to those of us who find this trend disturbing...

People of reason must be savvy, and just as tough as the intolerant Right, in defending scientific discovery and the ideal of human progress from the retrogressive forces now rallying behind this White House. With a messianic militarist in the Oval Office, social conservatives are seizing the initiative and assailing the Enlightenment. Time is not on our side.

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