From Nobel winning economist, Paul Krugman:
Mr. Perry, the governor of Texas, recently made headlines by dismissing evolution as “just a theory,†one that has “got some gaps in it†— an observation that will come as news to the vast majority of biologists.
Mr. Perry and those who think like him know what they want to believe, and their response to anyone who contradicts them is to start a witch hunt.
odds are that one of these years the world’s greatest nation will find itself ruled by a party that is aggressively anti-science, indeed anti-knowledge
Also check out the book, “the republican war on science” – if you need more examples.