Can we stop acting like evolution is controversial?

There at times comes a point in intellectual conflict when you simply must throw your hands in the air and abandon any hope of reasonable resolution. This is no truer than when religion intrudes into the fray, and the stakes become infinitely greater than the issue itself. After all, the atheist living next door is a far greater threat to your children than the pedophile. If this life is merely the blink of the eye of eternity, the material concerns of this world become trite.

There's no headway to be made against this type of thinking, no reasoning, no pleading, and no compromise. As such, our greatest weapon here is what many refer to as conversational intolerance. The bleating of young- earthers and anti- rationalists should fall upon our ears in the same manner as the rantings of the UFO nut or the babbling of the holocaust denier, and they all deserve our mockery and contempt.

We need more of this in the media, and less apologizing.