«If McCain thinks the way to start campaigning for the Republican nomination is to come out for medieval theology, why can't the Democratic nominees begin by coming out for modern science?»
--"I'd never vote for McCain, anyway": Great. Now McCain sells his soul to the anti-scientists.
Clearly this reversion to the Dark Ages is not going far enough. I think we need to teach not just the "Jesus built the critters and the sky and the USA" perspective in America's sacred schools; we need to add an older and even more abstruse and world-denying approach: Solipsism. Now and forever. Nevar fogret.