It's a knee-jerk reaction to what they probably perceive as the crumbling of modern society as it abandons god, or something to that effect. I would like to think that it's a sign that the country is moving away from the influence of fundamentalist religion; seeing that their influence is waning, they decide to go nuts and wind up accelerating their decline.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
