Moment of Truth

So climate skeptics of all stripes have an opportunity to demonstrate just how highly they value sound science. As the NY Times reports today, religious conservatives are hitching their anti-evolution agenda to the anti-AGW bandwagon. Now, as the readers of Climate Depot, Planet Gore, Watts Up With That, Reason's Hit & Run, and Tom Nelson well know, the evidence for evolution is indisputable. As the Times puts it, "there is no credible challenge" to Darwin's theory. Yet there persists this movement among Christian conservatives to teach Intelligent Design alongside evolution in public schools. Recent court rulings have blunted those efforts, so creationists are trying a new tack by linking up with climate skeptics. Since climate skeptics often talk about the need for sound science in the climate debate, I'm looking forward to reading in the aforementioned blogs about their distress at being co-opted by religious, anti-science ideologues. UPDATE: Randy Olson, ...