WaPo editorial – Amen

After a neat and tidy shredding of the Intelligent Designers, the Washington Post takes a thoughtful look forward, and mentions a rarely commented on (but ultimately quite important) factor that burbles beneath the surface of each of these controversies – the brain drain that is already ongoing in the American scientific community.

[T]he breadth and extent of the anti-evolutionary movement that has spread almost unnoticed across the country should force American politicians to think twice about how their public expressions of religious belief are beginning to affect education and science. The deeply religious nature of the United States should not be allowed to stand in the way of the thirst for knowledge or the pursuit of science. Once it does, it won’t be long before the American scientific community — which already has trouble finding enough young Americans to fill its graduate schools — ceases to lead the world.