Teachers, Scientists Vow to Fight Challenge to Evolution

I think at least the arguments are getting clearer. Note that now they are vowing to "fight challenges to evolution". I personally don't think that creationism will ever qualify as science, but these "educators" are not fighting creationism, but the very challenge itself. And this isn't science, for every theory only grows through it's challenges.

"Scientists warn that introducing challenges to evolution in the public school curriculum would weaken education, harm the economy and, as one paleontologist put it, open Kansas to ridicule as "the hayseed state." "

Here again, people who don't buy the evolution explanation are ridiculed. Not a very scientific response. Here's another telling quote:

One goal is to show how few scientists around the world doubt evolutionary theory. The Discovery Institute, the strongest voice behind intelligent design, at one point gathered the names of 356 scientists who questioned evolution. In response, the National Center for Science Education located 543 scientists named
Steve -- including a few Stephanies -- who declared the evidence "overwhelmingly
in favor of the idea that all living things share a common ancestry."

Ok, so now we'll settle scientific issues by voting. We'll have to forget the little bit of history that Quantum Mechanics and general relativity were both initially "voted down" by leading scientists (and one by the other too; Einstein never bought Quantum Theory, claiming that he refused to believe that "God played dice with the universe"). One final quote, at the end of the article:

"It is ridiculous to backtrack to the 1700s and subvert our education to superstition and religion."

Again the ridicule.