Salon.com News | A real monkey trial: "Martin is a member of Kansas' Board of Education and part of a 6-4 majority that appears dead set on changing state standards so the creationist theory of intelligent design, and perhaps other religious ideas, can be taught in science classes along with evolution. Martin and her creationist colleagues are ready to override a report recently issued by scientists and educators on Kansas' curriculum committee, which wants to keep the state's solid science standards intact."

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"Krebs, like others around the country who have stood up for evolution in recent years, regards the current creationist fixation on intelligent design as a wedge, intended to open the door to the introduction of a wide range of creationist ideas in science classrooms. For that matter, he also views the entire struggle over evolution as merely a wedge in the religious right's efforts to tear down the constitutional wall between church and state. 'This is all part of a bigger political struggle,' says Krebs, matter-of-factly. And some creationists agree. 'If you believe God created [a] baby, it makes it a whole lot harder to get rid of that baby,' Terry Fox, pastor of the Southern Baptist Ministry in Wichita, told a Washington Post reporter this spring. 'If you can cause enough doubt on evolution, liberalism will die.'"

(Via Salon.)