Like, perhaps, the evangelicals placed high in the administrations of both President Bushes and Ronald Reagan, too, who have seen no need for environmental laws or even the point of conservation because "The Rapture" - when they'll be physically transported by God from the mess we've made down here - is coming soon.
It's scarier still when the guy who's got the fourth-most votes for the presidency so far, Mike Huckabee, doesn't believe in evolution because of his religious convictions and wants "to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards."
Looking at the data, I have to doubt the survival of forums like mine - or like this page - that depend on some backgrounding in fact and a modicum of critical thinking among the mass of people. What's apparent is a swift trending past dumb to dumber on exhortations from the bully pulpits of the 6,000-year-old world view, where, in the first days of the New Millennium, it was, again, President Bush enlightening us, with, "I think we agree, the past is over."
