Earth Still Flat -- Per Religious Right

A depressing article in the Washington Post about how the religious right is totally mobilized behind attacking evolution and basic science. They are fighting on a thousand fronts and winning skirmishes every day. And, frankly, it gets exhausting explaining why you don't believe the earth is flat or that the world is some 40,000 years old rather than billions of years old.

My God, forty five years ago when we were chasing the Russians in the space race and glorifying science and math, there was no "debate" in schools about the basic tenets of science and the fight over evolution was a relic of the past, along with fights over slavery and the rights of women. Now we're falling behind in math and science across the board when compared to Europe and Japan and the far right wants to condemn Galileo all over again. See a link?