God and Evolution

Monday's editorial in the Washington post talks about God and evolution far more eloquently than I could. I'll site the last paragraph. Intelligent design:
...violates principles of common sense. In fact, the breadth and extent of the anti-evolutionary movement that has spread almost unnoticed across the country should force American politicians to think twice about how their public expressions of religious belief are beginning to affect education and science. The deeply religious nature of the United States should not be allowed to stand in the way of the thirst for knowledge or the pursuit of science. Once it does, it won't be long before the American scientific community -- which already has trouble finding enough young Americans to fill its graduate schools -- ceases to lead the world.

Both science and religion are given a disservice by this push. Science shouldn't be corrupted and muddied by arguments that are not scientific. Religion has valuable and rich answers to life's questions that don't rely on twisting scientific ideas that are generally accepted as truth.
Having this argument, an argument that should have been settled decades ago, hurts everyone's search for answers.