The new dirty nine letter word: Evolution

"Give 'em an inch and they take a mile." That is the apt description of the mass looney tune army that is doing their damnest to impose their irrational world view on the rest of us. If you are still in the dark as to what I am refering to, it is the movement to replace the empirical scientific method with such unmitigated horse crap as "intelligent design." Not this struggle is anything new: it began in Western civilization when such figures as Plato & Aristotle argued for observation of the natural world as it is. There were powerful figures back then that prefered the explanations provided by the religion of the time, and they forced Plato to drink hemlock. Another prime example was Galileo's travails when he "dared" to publish scientific proof over official superstition. Not that the powers-that-be necessarily believed what they were pushing, but their hold on temporal power depended their being seen as the "holders of the truth." Flash forward to present day and all across the USA, the minions of fundamentalist Christianity are trying to bully their hogwash upon the public body politic. To let them do so would constitute a great leap backwards at a critical time in the history of human life on the planet Earth. They just can not accept that the empirical case for Darwin's theory grows every year, while the case for their Biblical version grows weaker to the point where the case for extra-terrestial life visiting this planet is stronger. It is well past time that they put aside their childish notions, just as the majority of the first world no longer believes in polythesism.