Reality-Based Conservatism

Derb finds a website devoted to conservative defenses of scientific research against the Christianist assault:

Darwin Central, incidentally, is a new pro-science conservative advocacy site and meeting place. We're about 25% scientists and/or scientifically-trained professionals and 75% laypeople (I'm one of the latter), all of whom share a love of science, and grave concerns about where the country is heading, both in terms of rising scientific illiteracy and the bizarre anti-science sentiment in too many corners of the right, and how it is in consequence allowing the far left to remerge by claiming the mantle of science and reason for itself.

Meanwhile, the "conservative" movement continues on its suicidal fusion with fundamentalist Christianity. Here's how Andy Shlafly's "Conservapedia" describes one period in pre-history:

Take the Pleistocene Epoch. Most scientists know it as the ice age and date it back at least 1.6 million years. But Conservapedia calls it "a theorized period of time" a theory contradicted, according to the entry, by "multiple lines of evidence" indicating that the Earth is less than 10,000 years old, as described in the Book of Genesis.

Jesus and Darwin wept.