"TAKE OUR CULTURE BACK"

That's what Laura Ingraham said at one of Hannity's appearances and I guess she wants to take us back to the Middle Ages. Paul Sunstone of Cafe Philos has a thorough write-up of the Fundie biology teacher who was teaching intelligent design creationism when he wasn't burning crosses on student's arms and he linked to a disturbing poll.

Study: 16 Percent of U.S. Science Teachers Are Creationists
By BOB HOLMES
May 21, 2008
ABC News

Despite a court-ordered ban on the teaching of creationism in U.S. schools, about one in eight high-school biology teachers still teach it as valid science, a survey reveals.

The researchers polled a random sample of nearly 2,000 high-school science teachers across the U.S. in 2007. Of the 939 who responded, 2 percent said they did not cover evolution at all, with the majority spending between 3 and 10 classroom hours on the subject.

However, a quarter of the teachers also reported spending at least some time teaching about creationism or intelligent design. Of these, 48 percent -- about 12.5 percent of the total survey -- said they taught it as a "valid, scientific alternative to Darwinian explanations for the origin of species".

When Berkman's team asked about the teachers' personal beliefs, about the same number, 16 percent of the total, said they believed human beings had been created by God within the last 10,000 years.