A warning shot across the bow

[treeskin]

While the 2004 election shook my faith in the public's capacity for rational thought, this and this have rendered me speechless. While the one elementary-school science teacher I know well (my mother) holds creationist strategies like intelligent design in no high regard, I have to wonder how many teachers do use those materials when they're provided, or even seek them out. It's no wonder our schools are in the state they are.

Link via this page, which is a good read itself.

editited to add:
Here's an editorial entitled Creeping Creationism, that provides a decent summary of the current issues that are in court now, and may be headed that way. (Link via Internet Infidels.)