Reply #14: It's worse than that.

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It is not just that they want public schools to be Evangelical parochial schools, but they want people to stop thinking. Evolution has become their poster child of Satan because it teaches people to rely on observation and critical thinking to ascertain facts, even if those facts contradict religious doctrine. They don't want people finding facts and being critical in thought. They want people's only source of information to be them. The Fundies want people to depend on them for their world-view, for their identity and for their reason for being.