[Displaced Flames fan]

Originally Posted by photon

If they didn't keep poking their nose in it'd be easy to ignore them. It's hard to ignore them though when they start lawsuits and try to have laws changed.



Because they wield enough political power that it impacts everyone, not just themselves. If someone wants to sit in their house and say the sky is red, knock yourself out. But if a group wields enough political power to change the education system to teach the sky is blue OR red, to set scientific policy so that research into the sky is dissuaded because dogma makes research into other possible colours of the sky immoral, that impacts everyone.

Ignorant students make ignorant citizens. Less scientists, falling behind in technology.. technology is necessary to the survival and thriving of society now, without it we can't feed everyone, we can't help people that are sick. Scientific literacy is very important, anything that undermines that has to be looked at carefully.

Well, I guess you're more disturbed by the weak forrays into those arenas that have been made than I am. I know there was a big uproar here in Kansas about teaching creationism in school a couple of years ago. Everyone got all upset about it, but it was voted down. Logic and sanity prevailed.

I could be totally out to lunch on this, but aren't the numbers of the folks you are talking about decreasing?