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"What ID proponents either refuse to accept or fail to grasp is the understanding that science education is meant to teach a way of studying the natural world..."
Yet they've convinced over 60 percent of Americans that their nonsense should be taught in schools, according to a 2005 poll. And that percentage is probably higher among Republicans (60 percent of whom are young-earth creationists) and right-leaning independents. I have trouble understanding how believing something, no matter how stupid, that's in agreement with the majority of the voters he's pandering to hurts Jindal's electability.
"To advance this policy from the office of the Vice President -- the head of NASA, also -- casts an ominous shadow over the future of American education,..."
More so than supporting it from the Oval Office?