Picked this up form someones signature which made me smile.

"In a recent poll it was shown that 66% of americans feel President Bush is doing a poor job managing the war in Iraq.      The other 34% of Americans believe Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to church."

Glad to see some of them have a sense of humour. But the level of ignorance in middle America is still scary.

Need to edit and comment on this later!

There has always been hostility from many fundamentalist Christians towards evolutionary theory, and by extension to science in general. This is the first time I've seen the rationale for that hostility laid out clearly.

The whole article is here. There's much that is plain wrong in the article, and more that I disagree with - but the crux is this section:

Dr. Paul J Dean's Weblog
According to evolutionary theory, the earth evolved over billions of years. During that long period of time, creatures/animals lived and died, and, they died before human beings evolved. The problem lies in the fact that both the Old and New Testaments (Genesis 1; Romans 5; etc.) attribute death to the sin of Adam. Adam sinned and death entered into the world (Rom. 5:12). Because of sin and death entering into the world, human beings are born spiritually dead in sin. As such, they are in need of a Savior. Of course, that is why God sent His Son into the world: to save dead sinners from their sin. If death is not the result of sin, then there is no need for a Savior. If there is no need for a Savior, then there is no need for Christ and the cross, and Christianity itself falls to the ground. Evolution is not merely a debate over origins, though it is that. It is a direct attack on the cross of Jesus Christ and His atoning work. I encourage Christians who may believe that God could have used evolution to think this reality through and discard the unbiblical worldview to which you subscribe.

The State | 03/16/2006 | We'll never resolve culture wars as long as extremists define debate

"I don't believe God chose to create the universe in the literal way described in Genesis. I believe God chose to explain his creation in a way that was understandable to early man. I believe God probably chose to create the heavens and the earth and all the creatures that dwell therein through the process his creation has come to call evolution. That would make me an intelligent design proponent if the term meant what it implies. It doesn't; it means playing up minor apparent inconsistencies and so-called holes in the evidence in an attempt to undermine Darwin. In other words, intelligent design isn't an attempt by the mainstream to bridge the divide; it's an attempt by one side to repackage its offerings."

A succinct rendering of the above that I once read:
If you want to know why god made the world - read the bible. If you want to know how he did it - as a scientist"

I found this quotation from Bertrand Russell on Godlorica. :

Blogged it in reference to the idiocy that is the debate over Intelligent Design currently raging in the USA, as a nice example  of something that can't be disproved.