Damn, and I was just saying to my mom the other day that I respected McCain and might even vote for him if given the opportunity (credit goes to the Arizona Daily Star for the story that made me realize I should be paying more attention):

On Tuesday, though, he sided with the president on two issues that have made headlines recently: teaching intelligent design in schools and Cindy Sheehan, the grieving mother who has come to personify the anti-war movement.

McCain told the Star that, like Bush, he believes “all points of view” should be available to students studying the origins of mankind.

The theory of intelligent design says life is too complex to have developed through evolution, and that a higher power must have had a hand in guiding it.

No, no, no, no, NO. For the love of everything in this “sin-cursed world,” NO.

The danger of this latest outbreak of fuzzy-headed thinking is that, well, it all just sounds so reasonable, doesn’t it? I mean, in these enlightened times of ours, what reactionary meanie would actually stand against our children being taught “all points of view”? Never mind that “intelligent design” is creationism’s reanimated corpse propped up and dressed in a nice new suit.

How the hell do you test a child’s grasp of ID, anyway? “God created the Earth. True/False?”

I implore all readers of this site to check out Talk Origins for more on evolution. It does a fine job explaining all that scary science stuff, as well as making it clear that evolutionary theory is not a Satan-spawned plot implemented by teeth-gnashing atheists.