Paul Hanle writes,

[F]rom 1989 to 2001, the rate of increase of patent applications from the world’s fastest-growing economies, such as China and India, was nearly three times that of the United States. By that measure, innovation in those economies will blow past ours in little more than a decade — just about the time the current classes of high school biology students will be starting their research careers. (War on evolution has a price)

Think on that for a moment.

Waging war on science in the classrooms will have a toll on this nations ability to support itself both domestically and internationally.  Possibly in one generation we can move from being a world leader to a backwater because of a coordinated effort to re-introduce the Dark Ages.  Granted, that is very likely what the opponents to free thought and open inquiry want because it is so much easier to control those who are ignorant of the world around them but what the people buying into the rhetoric seem to forget is that it will be paid for by the prosperity of their children.

Bread and circuses, right?