War on Evolution Has a Price

Paul Hanle of the Biotechnology Institute writes in the Washington Post on the price the war of evolution will ultimately cost -- namely, the capacity of the future generation to innovate and compete in the global economy. Hanle hits nail on the head by defining the war on evolution as not a war of the believers against the godless non-believers, but a war "between religious dogma cloaked as science and open inquiry." It is a war that is being fought in the public schools for the minds of the future. What proponents of intelligent design don't seem to grasp is that by attacking evolutionary science, they're attacking the very foundations of biological science. Without today's students being taught the facts and the principles of scientific query that leads to understanding of the physical world, how can we expect them to be functioning researchers who will be on the frontlines developing cures for emerging diseases? Intelligent design and related muddlement are injustices we are allowing to be committed against the future. The future needs more than our silence in the face of such attacks.