The Florida State Senate’s K-12 Education Committee approved a bill to the main floor “protecting” teachers who wish to teach alternative theories of evolution (read: Creationism). Clearly these bills have been discussed in the blogosphere extensively, but whenever these bills are introduced I still cringe. For one, this is the very reason why we need more scientists involved in politics. When it comes to key issues such as evolution, stem cell research, and regulations on scientific entities, it would obviously help to have individuals that actually understand the basic concepts. While politicians are prone to make things up as they go along, the rules of science unfortunately do not work that way. Until creationists actually develop an idea that falls in line with the very foundation of modern science, the Scientific Method, it is an absolute atrocity that such an idea even be called a theory much less scientific. The Scientific Method holds that all theories must be falsifiable, in which an experiment or investigation can prove the merits or demerits of the particular theory. Evolution passes this test, Creationism does not. And until our basic legislators can understand this most basic concept, should we really be surprised that our educational system lags behind other developed nations? That the funding of the sciences is taking a back seat to the Iraq War? I suppose not.