I watched a ABC Nightline show a couple of weeks ago about the Dover, Penn evolution controversey. The story seemed pretty even handed. It seemed to focus on the mean spiritedness of both sides( a creationist schoolboard member asking a science teacher if he had ever been accused of child abuse; the ACLU threating to shut down the school district with a costly lawsuit, etc).
The main weakness to me was that little time was spent on any arguments for or agaist, and precious little science invoked on either account. But all in all it was valuable to see the current spin on the emotions stirred up.
It also seems that we only see such shows or see letters to the editor during the slowest news cycles. I rarely see any evo/creo articles in any format during the months leading up to elections.
As a last point it was mildly amusing to see that rural Pennsylvania has some similar viewpoints as the usual southern historical bastions of creationist thinking.
From near the buckle of the Bible belt
Arkansas Banana Boy
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