Kudos to pilot Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger III! Because of his extensive experience as a pilot, his F4 training in the Air Force, his experience with gliders, and his work as a safety consultant, he was able to safely ditch his Airbus in the Hudson River yesterday without any loss of life among the 155 passengers and crew onboard.

So who would you rather have as your pilot: somebody with Sullenberger's resume, or just any warm body off the street?

If anti-evolutionists across the country treated the airline industry the same way they treat science education, they'd insist that pilots didn't need expertise. They'd argue that pilots and passengers should be taught "both sides" of Bernoulli's principle. They'd maintain that any legislator or school board member is capable of making critical decisions about airplane safety, and that pilots should be required to consider "Intelligent Falling" as well as gravity in their decisions. The results, of course, would be dozens of wrecks and hundreds of fatalities.

Though they claim to be doing it for the kids, anti-evolution activists across the country all suffer from an astonishing lack of humility. They're convinced that their uninformed opinions about science are just as valid as theories derived from multiple lines of evidence. They're determined to wreck science education in our country.

Would you want your child on one of their planes?