the zeitgeist report

There is an exhibit based on the "controversial" theories of Charles Darwin:

Inside another vitrine, an incon­spicuous object catches Wilson's eye. A pocket-size notebook has been left open to a page on which I think is scrawled above a rudimentary sketch of what looks like a tree. "It's the tree of evolution, 1837," he says in a hushed voice. A guard gruffly asks him to take a step back. "I can see why she's worried," he says. "In the history of science, this is like the Declaration of Independence." Two years after Darwin's return from his voyage on the HMS Beagle, his inchoate obser­vations had begun to take shape. But so anxious was Darwin to avoid the controversy he knew his ideas would create that he spent another 21 years refining them. Questioning creationism, he wrote in 1844, was like "confessing a murder."

Belief in Darwinism vs. Creationism is about 50/50 in the public at large, with Darwin experiencing a slight decline.

In an article by Tom Wolfe called "Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died", he writes about

A sobering look at how man may perceive himself in the future, particularly as ideas about genetic predeterminism takes the place of dying Darwinism.

And America's greatest Pastor Writes:

Whatever one thinks of intelligent design, it must be admitted that the finest minds in the history of human thought, from Aristotle to Augustine to Aquinas to Galileo to Einstein to today's Alvin Plantinga, at some level, believed in intelligent design. It seems educationally dishonest to withhold from our children what some of the greatest thinkers in history believed.

Well, if Alvin Plantinga...