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This article, from Esquire Magazine, is great! It's a truly sobering look at the U.S. anti-evolution movement. My favorite quote:

And in Dover, Pennsylvania, during one of these many controversies, a pastor named Ray Mummert delivers the line that both ends our tour and, in every real sense, sums it up:

"We've been attacked," he says, "by the intelligent, educated segment of the culture."

And there it is.

And there it is, indeed.

We have a culture here that has really developed a disdain for intelligence, logical inquiry, and thought. Politicians are dismissed as "eggheads" or "wafflers" is they dare to commit the sin of approaching a problem from more than one angle. Admitting that something as complex as, oh, I don't know... INVADING ANOTHER COUNTRY might be capable of generating more than a single viewpoint is seen as weakness?! We have a situation where all problems are reduced to black and white responses, where "you are either with us or against us", and where discourse is seen as weakness.

We've got to find a way out of this mess.