L, that was Craig's question too: "Why argue about this Darwin guy in this day and age?" I think we all agree that teaching evolution in schools--as a topic of debate--shouldn't get the face time that the more crucial areas you mentioned (daycare, teacher pay, etc.) deserve. But to the people who gave Frans DeWaal a righteous earful on the show Craig caught, the issue of evolution vs. 'intelligent design' supercedes most other education-related topics because God is involved. Ensuring that low income kids get a healthy lunch or determining the optimal class size? Whatever, let the politicos handle that. But kick God out of science class? Them's fightin' words.

p.s. isn't it weird that blogger makes us type in a weird letter-jumble code to add a comment to an existing entry (even if we're logged in), but writing an entirely new post doesn't required me to promise that "rghzjrq" are the letters on my screen?