I am here to learn, mostly...
To learn more about a rising tide of Dark Ages mentality that frightens me even more than the resurgence of McCarthyism--a bully-mob mind that wants to make one gigantic Appeal to Consequence the law of the land.
I want to know what makes willful ignorance and hatefulness cloak itself in robes and masquerade as virtue.
I want to re-familiarize myself with developments in both evolutionary theory and Creationist cant, so that I can respond more effectively here and elsewhere.
Besides, I think Brad is inspired. Some of the rest of you are okay, too.