One small step for creationism, one giant step backward for science education. Caving in to the pressure of--let's be frank--an uninformed and wilfully obtuse public, the Ohio Department of Education has voted unanimously to require evolution not to be taught as fact, but as a controversy in which there are many competing, equally valid views. Apparently 82% of Ohioans think that curricular treatment of the origins of life should not be confined to evolutionary theory. The numbers reflect a national consensus--one that in turn reflects an overwhelming and troubling disconnect between the general education level of the American people and the current state of science. Evolution is only controversial to people who are more inclined to superstition than reason; our schools are catering to the public's desire to believe in magic when it passes measures such as these. Despite what postmodernism and multiculturalism want us to believe, there is such a thing as truth, and there are such things as facts. Truth can be differentiated from falsehood, and we can tell the difference between facts and fallacies. Evolution is a fact. Creationism--or "intelligent design" as the current newspeak has it--is a fallacy.