via CNN

Anti-creationism prof quits department chair

To summarize my opinions on the subject, Dr. Mirecki (the prof in question) is right. From my own experience, many of the politically-active fundamentalists (many of them are not politically active, and many are very nice people) tend to be thin-skinned, schadenfreude-ridden advocates of political violence. Dr. Mirecki may very well be biased, unprofessional, etc, etc, but he happens to be correct, and the way in which he was beaten by two men on the side of a road because of this incident on Monday serves almost as an archetypical example of the way in which (actual) conservatives resort to force when argument is exhausted, when they are shown to be incorrect or offended/insulted in some way.