Apparently, Their Deity Has Alerted Them to a Hatred of Evolution. Oddly Enough, He Has No Opinion on the Rising Deficit nor the War in Iraq

Evangelical Christians, buoyed by the re-election of Republican President George W. Bush, are turning American schools into battleground over whether evolution explains the origins of life or whether nature was designed by an all-powerful force.

In at least 18 states, campaigns have begun to make public schools teach "intelligent design" — a theory that nautre is so complex it could only have been created by design — alongside Charles Darwin's theory of evolution....

65% of all Americans favoured schools teaching creationism and evolution while 37% wanted creationism taught instead of evolution.

In a related poll, an equal number of Americans said they believed the world was flat and stated they were willing to sacrifice many virgins to their states' legislatures to have their equally backward belief taught in schools. Thankfully, virgins are much harder to come by nowadays.